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Great Quotes by Salman Rushdie
- The liveliness of literature lies in its exceptionality, in being the individual, idiosyncratic vision of one human being, in which, to our delight and great…
- Five mysteries hold the keys to the unseen: the act of love, and the birth of a baby, and the contemplation of great art, and…
- Among the great struggles of man-good/evil, reason/unreason, etc.-there is also this mighty conflict between the fantasy of Home and the fantasy of Away, the dream…
- What distinguishes a great artist from a weak one is first their sensibility and tenderness; second, their imagination, and third, their industry.
- Sometimes great, banned works defy the censor's description and impose themselves on the world - 'Ulysses,' 'Lolita,' the 'Arabian Nights.'
- You don't that often see writers being sought out when there are matters of great moment to discuss. And I think that's a loss.
- I'm a reader of Chinese literature, I like their films, but also: I've had great difficulty getting my work published in China; very little of…
- Islam is unusual in that it's the only one of the great world religions which was born inside recorded history. That there's an enormous amount…
- The great concern is that year after year, rising numbers of journalists are being killed in pursuit of their work. They are increasingly seen as…
- The Koran was revealed at a time of great change in the Arab world, the seventh-century shift from a matriarchal nomadic culture to an urban…
- The question I'm always asking myself is: are we masters or victims? Do we make history, or does history make us? Do we shape the…
- In spite of all evidence that life is discontinuous, a valley of rifts, and that random chance plays a great part in our fates, we…
- They lived in a great city, a metropolis of many narratives that converged briefly and then separated for ever, discovering their different dooms in that…
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- Films and television and even comic books are churning out vast quantities of fictional narratives, and the public continues to swallow them… — Paul Auster
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- Ironically, the first thing that appealed to me about Islam was its pluralism. The fact that the Koran praises all the great… — Karen Armstrong
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