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Two Quotes by Salman Rushdie
- A book is a product of a pact with the Devil that inverts the Faustian contract, he'd told Allie. Dr Faustus sacrificed eternity in return…
- I'm not a prophet, but I always thought it was natural for dictatorships to fall. I remember in 1989, two months before the fall of…
- There are two things in Indian history - one is the incredible optimism and potential of the place, and the other is the betrayal of…
- Human beings, you see, do absolutely two primary things. We see like and unlike. Like becomes, in literature, simile and metaphor. Unlike becomes uniqueness and…
- I used to write a monthly column for the 'New York Times' syndicate. But I stopped because I found it really hard to have one…
- 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…
- Pakistan is alarmed by the rising Indian influence in Afghanistan, and fears that an Afghanistan cleansed of the Taliban would be an Indian client state,…
- Two things form the bedrock of any open society - freedom of expression and rule of law. If you don't have those things, you don't…
- If a birth is the fall-out from the explosion caused by the union of two unstable elements, then perhaps a half-life is all we can…
- Sometimes we feel we straddle two cultures; at other times, that we fall between two stools.
- India, the new myth--a collective fiction in which anything was possible, a fable rivalled only by the two other mighty fantasies: money and God.
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