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The Satanic Verses was a novel. Satanic Verses were verses that were satanic, and he was their satanic author, ‘Satan Rushdy’, the horned creature on the placards carried by demonstrators down the streets of a faraway city, the hanged man
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“Don't say 'what,' say 'pardon,' darling, and do as your mother tells you.”
― Bridget Jones’s Diary
― Bridget Jones’s Diary
“I am but mad north-north-west. When the wind is southerly, I know a hawk from a handsaw.”
― Illustrated Shakespeare (RHUK) Editions: Hamlet
― Illustrated Shakespeare (RHUK) Editions: Hamlet
“It's not love or anything, but I think I like you, too.”
― Fight Club
― Fight Club
“Mistrust all enterprises that require new clothes.”
― A Room with a View
― A Room with a View
“I really am a pessimist. I've always felt that fascism is a more natural governmental condition than democracy. Democracy is a grace. It's something essentially splendid because it's not at all routine or automatic. Fascism goes back to our infancy and childhood, where we were always told how to live. We were told, Yes, you may do this; no, you may not do that. So the secret of fascism is that it has this appeal to people whose later lives are not satisfactory.”
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