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Type: Novelist Quotes Category: Indian Novelist Quotes Date of Birth: June 19, 1947 Nationality: Indian Find on Amazon: Salman Rushdie Related Authors: Ernest Hemingway Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach Leo Tolstoy Chuck Palahniuk Antoine de Saint-Exupery Charles Dickens Richard Bach Paulo Coelho Truman Capote |
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A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it; or offer your own version in return.
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Salman Rushdie A poet's work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it going to sleep. Salman Rushdie Be sure that you go to the author to get at his meaning, not to find yours. Salman Rushdie Books choose their authors; the act of creation is not entirely a rational and conscious one. Salman Rushdie Doubt, it seems to me, is the central condition of a human being in the twentieth century. Salman Rushdie Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself. Salman Rushdie I do not need the idea of God to explain the world I live in. Salman Rushdie I hate admitting that my enemies have a point. Salman Rushdie I used to say, 'There is a God-shaped hole in me.' For a long time I stressed the absence, the hole. Now I find it is the shape which has become more important. Salman Rushdie If I were asked for a one-sentence sound bite on religion, I would say I was against it. Salman Rushdie If Woody Allen were a Muslim, he'd be dead by now. Salman Rushdie In this world without quiet corners, there can be no easy escapes from history, from hullabaloo, from terrible, unquiet fuss. Salman Rushdie It is very, very easy not to be offended by a book. You just have to shut it. Salman Rushdie Most of what matters in your life takes place in your absence. Salman Rushdie Names, once they are in common use, quickly become mere sounds, their etymology being buried, like so many of the earth's marvels, beneath the dust of habit. Salman Rushdie One of the extraordinary things about human events is that the unthinkable becomes thinkable. Salman Rushdie Our lives are not what we deserve; they are, let us agree, in many ways deficient. Salman Rushdie Our lives teach us who we are. Salman Rushdie Rock and roll music - the music of freedom frightens people and unleashes all manner of conservative defense mechanisms. Salman Rushdie Sometimes legends make reality, and become more useful than the facts. Salman Rushdie |
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