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Quite Quotes by Salman Rushdie
- I don't think I've ever quite grown out of it, actually. There was a point where I could recite some of those Elvish verses -…
- If you listen to the urban speech patterns in India you'll find it's quite characteristic that a sentence will begin in one language, go through…
- The idea of the sacred is quite simply one of the most conservative notions in any culture, because it seeks to turn other ideas -…
- My grandmother was very fierce and gruff. She was quite small, but she was very wide.
- Sometimes when you finish a book, you don't know quite what you've got.
- You don't fight radical conservatism with not-quite-so radical conservatism.
- I've been fascinated by Machiavelli since I was very young. I've always felt that he had a bad rap from history, and that he was…
- I have been only the humblest jugglers-with-facts; and that, in a country where the truth is what it is instructed to be, reality quite literally…
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