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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.»
«Whores and writers, Mahound. We are the people you can't forgive.»
Author: Salman Rushdie (Writer) | Keywords: Mahound, whores, writers
«Our lives teach us who we are.»
«Writers and politicians are natural rivals. Both groups try to make the world in their own images; they fight for the same territory.»
«I do not need the idea of God to explain the world I live in»
Author: Salman Rushdie (Writer) | Keywords: The World I
«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»
«Most of what matters in your life takes place in your absence.»
«One of the extraordinary things about human events is that the unthinkable becomes thinkable.»
«Reality is a question of perspective; the further you get from the past, the more concrete and plausible it seems -but as you approach the present, it inevitably seems incredible.»
«If you want to tell the untold stories, if you want to give voice to the voiceless, you've got to find a language. Which goes for film as well as prose, for documentary as well as autobiography. Use the wrong language, and you're dumb and blind.»

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