Salman Rushdie Quotes

Be sure that you go to the author to get at his meaning, not to find yours.
Salman Rushdie

Our lives teach us who we are.
Salman Rushdie

I do not need the idea of God to explain the world I live in.
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

When thought becomes excessively painful, action is the finest remedy.
Salman Rushdie

Writers and politicians are natural rivals. Both groups try to make the world in their own images; they fight for the same territory.
Salman Rushdie

The idea of the sacred is quite simply one of the most conservative notions in any culture, because it seeks to turn other ideas - uncertainty, progress, change - into crimes.
Salman Rushdie

Salman Rushdie Quotes
		A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it; or offer your own version in return. Salman Rushdie Vote on this Quote: Bad <---> Good
		Author Details: Type: Novelist Quotes Category: Indian Novelist Quotes Date of Birth: June 19, 1947 Nationality: Indian Amazon: Salman Rushdie on Amazon	Related Authors: Richard Bach Ernest Hemingway Paulo Coelho Leo Tolstoy Antoine de Saint-Exupery Elie Wiesel Aldous Huxley Anatole France Toni Morrison
		Select Salman Rushdie Quotations: Be sure that you go to the author to get at his meaning, not to find yours. Salman Rushdie Our lives teach us who we are. Salman Rushdie I do not need the idea of God to explain the world I live in. 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 When thought becomes excessively painful, action is the finest remedy. Salman Rushdie Writers and politicians are natural rivals. Both groups try to make the world in their own images; they fight for the same territory. Salman Rushdie The idea of the sacred is quite simply one of the most conservative notions in any culture, because it seeks to turn other ideas - uncertainty, progress, change - into crimes. Salman Rushdie
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