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“کسانی که عقاید احمقانه شان را ابراز می کنند اغلب بسیار حساسند. هر قدر عقاید کسی احمقانه تر باشد کمتر باید با او مخالفت کرد”
― Romain Gary, خداحافظ گاری کوپر

“If there is something that opens horizons, it is precisely ignorance.”
― Romain Gary

“Humor is an affirmation of dignity, a declaration of man's superiority to all that befalls him.”
― Romain Gary

“As long as you live, you hope. You think that everything will just...get better.”
― Romain Gary, Au-delà de cette limite votre ticket n'est plus valable

“He was learning that to win a fight like this, it was not enough to know what one was fighting against. That was easy. He was fighting against the view that people could be killed for their ideas, and against the ability of any religion to place a limiting point on thought. But he needed, now, to be clear of what he was fighting for. Freedom of speech, freedom of the imagination, freedom from fear, and the beautiful, ancient art of which he was privileged to be a practitioner. Also skepticism, irreverence, doubt, satire, comedy, and unholy glee. He would never again flinch from the defense of these things. p. 285”
― Salman Rushdie, Joseph Anton: A Memoir

“The questions he knew how to answer were not about place or roots, but about love. Who do you love? What can you leave behind, and what do you need to hold on to? Where does your heart feel full?”
― Salman Rushdie, Joseph Anton: A Memoir

“To grow up steeped in these tellings was to learn two unforgettable lessons: first, that stories were not true (there were no “real” genies in bottles or flying carpets or wonderful lamps), but by being untrue they could make him feel and know truths that the truth could not tell him, and second, that they all belonged to him, just as they belonged to his father, Anis, and to everyone else, they were all his, as they were his father’s, bright stories and dark stories, sacred stories and profane, his to alter and renew and discard and pick up again as and when he pleased, his to laugh at and rejoice in and live in and with and by, to give the stories life by loving them and to be given life by them in return. Man was the storytelling animal, the only creature on earth that told itself stories to understand what kind of creature it was. The story was his birthright, and nobody could take it away.”
― Salman Rushdie, Joseph Anton: A Memoir

“the art of the novel revealed anything, it was that human nature was the great constant, in any culture, in any place, in any time, and that, as Heraclitus had said two thousand years earlier, a man’s ethos, his way of being in the world, was his daimon, the guiding principle that shaped his life – or, in the pithier, more familiar formulation of the idea, that character was destiny.”
― Salman Rushdie, Joseph Anton: A Memoir