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Tell Quotes by Salman Rushdie
- 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…
- I am on Facebook, but mainly as a way to spy on my children. I find out more about them from their Facebook pages than…
- An attack upon our ability to tell stories is not just censorship - it is a crime against our nature as human beings.
- I'll tell you what divorce hasn't taught me. It didn't teach me not to get married again.
- Someone asked me if I was afraid to write my memoirs. I told him: 'We have to stop drawing up accounts of fear! We live…
- The difference between memoir and autobiography, as far as I see it, is that a memoir is there primarily to tell one particular story, whereas…
- We are the only animals that tell stories to understand the world we live in.
- 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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