Salman Rushdie's Quotes

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I think, in a written novel, the way in which you play with the readers'...

British society has never been cleansed of the filth of imperialism.

In any authoritarian society, the possessor of power dictates, and if you try...

A poet's work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides,...

I don't like books that seem to want to teach me things. Which is not to say...

What distinguishes a great artist from a weak one is first their sensibility...

I do have a lot of time for people in my life, and friendship is a very...

Two things form the bedrock of any open society - freedom of expression and...

What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to...

Vertigo is the conflict between the fear of falling and the desire to fall.

Perhaps because my relationship with my father went through such a long,...

Books choose their authors; the act of creation is not entirely a rational...

Fury...sexual, Oedipal, political, magical, brutal....drives us to our finest...

Most of what matters in our lives takes place in our absence.

The response of anybody interested in liberty is that we all have a say and...

The only way of living in a free society is to feel that you have the right...

I was 21 in 1968 so I'm as much a child of the '60s as is possible to be. In...

If I were asked for a one-sentence sound bite on religion I would say I was...

What one writer can make in the solitude of one room is something no power...

A poet's work is to name the unnameable to point at frauds to take sides...

There is a widespread difficulty in the Muslim world which has to do with...

In this world without quiet corners there can be no easy escapes from...

Throughout human history the apostles of purity those who have claimed to...

What distinguishes a great artist from a weak one is first their sensibility...

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