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Would Quotes by Salman Rushdie
- If my child had prejudice in his head, I'd be ashamed. I would see it as my failure as a parent.
- 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…
- All my adult life, if I didn't have several hours a day to sit in a room by myself, I would get antsy and irritable.
- If I were asked for a one-sentence sound bite on religion, I would say I was against it.
- The only thing worse than a bad review from the Ayatollah Khomeini would be a good review from the Ayatollah Khomeini.
- Actually, I don't even like parties. I would much prefer a room with four friends who sit around and have dinner. I detest nightclubs. And…
- I was 21 in 1968, so I'm as much a child of the '60s as is possible to be. In those years the subject of…
- I would argue that religion comes from a desire to get to the questions of, 'Where do we come from?' and 'How shall we live?'…
- I've met the Dalai Lama briefly, but I would probably say my grandfather was the wisest person I ever met. He was my mother's father,…
- If I were dead, then nobody in England would have to fuss about the cost of my security and whether or not I merited such…
- If there were Israeli attacks on Iranian nuclear facilities, it makes it certain there would be a reprisal attack against the United States at some…
- 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.…
- In an ideal world, you could reunite the Pakistan-occupied part of Kashmir with the Indian-occupied part and restore the old borders. You could have both…
- One of the things I do take some pride in is that if you had never read an article about my life, if you knew…
- 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,…
- Self-censorship is a lie to yourself; if you are going to be trying to seriously create art, to create literary art, and you decide to…
- Speaking as somebody with three sisters and a very largely female Muslim family, there is not a single woman I know in my family or…
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