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Place Quotes by Salman Rushdie
- The only privilege literature deserves - and this privilege it requires in order to exist - is the privilege of being in the arena of…
- Literature is the one place in any society where, within the secrecy of our own heads, we can hear voices talking about everything in every…
- Home is the place where you feel happy.
- Most of what matters in your life takes place in your absence.
- We cannot allow religious hooligans to place limiting points on thought.
- I do think of Bombay as my hometown. Those are the streets I walked when I was learning to walk. And it's the place that…
- There are two things in Indian history - one is the incredible optimism and potential of the place, and the other is the betrayal of…
- If you look at Indian movies, every time they wanted an exotic locale, they would have a dance number in Kashmir. Kashmir was India's fairyland.…
- The thing that always attracted me to New York was the sense of being in a place where a lot of people had a lot…
- Travel was pointless. It removed you from the place in which you had a meaning, and to which you gave meaning in return by dedicating…
- The world, somebody wrote, is the place we prove real by dying in it.
- The world is a very abnormal place.
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- Murder is unique in that it abolishes the party it injures, so that society has to take the place of the victim… — Wystan Hugh Auden