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Salman Rushdie Facts
Salman Rushdie Is Born On June 19, 1947
Salman Rushdie Is Born In Bombay, India
Salman Rushdie Nationality Is Indian
Salman Rushdie Zodiac Sign Is Gemini
Salman Rushdie Zodiac Symbol Is Twins
Salman Rushdie Chinese Zodiac Element Is Yin Fire
Salman Rushdie Chinese Zodiac Animal Is Pig
Salman Rushdie Occupation Is Novelist
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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 Quotes
A poets 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 Quotes
Be sure that you go to the author to get at his meaning, not to find yours. - Salman Rushdie Quotes
Books choose their authors; the act of creation is not entirely a rational and conscious one. - Salman Rushdie Quotes
Doubt, it seems to me, is the central condition of a human being in the twentieth century. - Salman Rushdie Quotes
Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself. - Salman Rushdie Quotes
I do not need the idea of God to explain the world I live in. - Salman Rushdie Quotes
I hate admitting that my enemies have a point. - Salman Rushdie Quotes
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 Quotes
If I were asked for a one-sentence sound bite on religion, I would say I was against it. - Salman Rushdie Quotes
If Woody Allen were a Muslim, hed be dead by now. - Salman Rushdie Quotes
In this world without quiet corners, there can be no easy escapes from history, from hullabaloo, from terrible, unquiet fuss. - Salman Rushdie Quotes
It is very, very easy not to be offended by a book. You just have to shut it. - Salman Rushdie Quotes
Most of what matters in your life takes place in your absence. - Salman Rushdie Quotes
Names, once they are in common use, quickly become mere sounds, their etymology being buried, like so many of the earths marvels, beneath the dust of habit. - Salman Rushdie Quotes
One of the extraordinary things about human events is that the unthinkable becomes thinkable. - Salman Rushdie Quotes
Our lives are not what we deserve; they are, let us agree, in many ways deficient. - Salman Rushdie Quotes
Our lives teach us who we are. - Salman Rushdie Quotes
Rock and roll music - the music of freedom frightens people and unleashes all manner of conservative defense mechanisms. - Salman Rushdie Quotes
Sometimes legends make reality, and become more useful than the facts. - Salman Rushdie Quotes
Such is the miraculous nature of the future of exiles: what is first uttered in the impotence of an overheated apartment becomes the fate of nations. - Salman Rushdie Quotes
The acceptance that all that is solid has melted into the air, that reality and morality are not givens but imperfect human constructs, is the point from which fiction begins. - Salman Rushdie Quotes
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 Quotes
Throughout human history, the apostles of purity, those who have claimed to possess a total explanation, have wrought havoc among mere mixed-up human beings. - Salman Rushdie Quotes
Vertigo is the conflict between the fear of falling and the desire to fall. - Salman Rushdie Quotes
What distinguishes a great artist from a weak one is first their sensibility and tenderness; second, their imagination, and third, their industry. - Salman Rushdie Quotes
What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist. - Salman Rushdie Quotes
What one writer can make in the solitude of one room is something no power can easily destroy. - Salman Rushdie Quotes
When thought becomes excessively painful, action is the finest remedy. - Salman Rushdie Quotes
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 Quotes
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