Quotes by Salman Rushdie

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

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Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself.

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

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

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

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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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The acceptance that all that is solid has melted into the air, that reality and...

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