Changing the world Quote by Salman Rushdie

“The world is about the way in which our dreams intersect with our real life. Endlessly, the world of the imagination changes the world.” quote by Salman Rushdie — Download Open image

“The world is about the way in which our dreams intersect with our real life. Endlessly, the world of the imagination changes the world.”

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If my child had prejudice in his head, I'd be ashamed. I would see it as my failure as a parent.

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It's a terrible thing that your life turns into a good story.

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Sometimes by a woodland stream he watched the water rush over the pebbled bed, its tiny modulations of bounce and flow. A woman's body was like that. If you watched it carefully enough you could see how it moved to the rhythm of the world, the deep rhythm, the music below the music, the truth below the truth. He believed…

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“Después de exigir mi marcha, ya no posees jurisdicción en lo concerniente a mi salud.”

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If there is a choice between absolute safety and freedom, then freedom must always prevail.

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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…

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I'd wanted to create a storm so that I could become more famous and richer.

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Who what am I? My answer: I am the sum total of everything that went before me, of all I have been seen done,…

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“...proving once again that there was no escape from recurrence.”

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