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Name Quotes by Salman Rushdie
- In India, as elsewhere in our darkening world, religion is the poison in the blood. Where religion intervenes, mere innocence is no excuse. Yet we…
- It matters, it always matters, to name rubbish as rubbish ... to do otherwise is to legitimize it.
- A poet's work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it going to…
- One of the reasons my name is Rushdie is that my father was an admirer of Ibn Rush'd, the 12th century Arab philosopher known as…
- So India’s problem turns out to be the world’s problem. What happened in India has happened in God’s name. The problem’s name is God.
- Khattam-Shud,' he said slowly, 'is the Arch-Enemy of all Stories, even of language itself. He is the Prince of Silence and the Foe of Speech.…
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