Quotes about Salman Rushdie

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

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If Woody Allen were a Muslim, he'd be dead by now.

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

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I used to say, 'There is a God-shaped hole in me.' For a long time...

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I hate admitting that my enemies have a point.

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

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Doubt, it seems to me, is the central condition of a human being in the...

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Be sure that you go to the author to get at his meaning, not to...

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

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

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Throughout human history, the apostles of purity, those who have claimed to possess a total...

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The idea of the sacred is quite simply one of the most conservative notions in...

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