"The interesting thing about history sometimes. is that……" — Salman Rushdie
"The interesting thing about history sometimes. is that you know these people existed, and you knew what jobs they did, but you don't know much about them as people, so you actually have to make them up."
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482 Quotes by Salman Rushdie
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The only privilege literature deserves - and this privilege it requires in order to exist - is the privilege of…
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The liveliness of literature lies in its exceptionality, in being the individual, idiosyncratic vision of one human being, in which,…
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Five mysteries hold the keys to the unseen: the act of love, and the birth of a baby, and the…
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There needs to be a thorough examination, by Muslims everywhere, of why it is that the faith they love breeds…
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Live on, survive, for the earth gives forth wonders. It may swallow your heart, but the wonders keep on coming.…
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Good advice is rarer than rubies.
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In India, as elsewhere in our darkening world, religion is the poison in the blood. Where religion intervenes, mere innocence…
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For a fellow who's not to much to look at, you have the instincts of a champion.
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A man who invents himself needs someone to believe in him... Not only the need to be believed in, but…
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Free speech is life itself.
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After a long, hopeless war, people will settle for peace, at almost any price.
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If you want to tell the untold stories, if you want to give voice to the voiceless, you've got to…
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During all these years there existed within me a tendency to follow Nature in her walks.
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The same thing which is now called Christian religion existed among the ancients. They have begun to call 'Christian' the…
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A jealous lover of human liberty, deeming it the absolute condition of all that we admire and respect in humanity,…
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When people talk of the freedom of writing, speaking or thinking I cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever…
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Life, liberty, and property do not exist because men have made laws. On the contrary, it was the fact that…
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Think how different human societies would be if they were based on love rather than justice. But no such societies…
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I was a very shy girl who led an insulated life; it was only when I came to Oxford, and…
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I have seen good nurses and bad nurses. They existed along a continuum: from hard-working, kind and competent people, to…
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You never know what you will learn till you start writing. Then you discover truths you never knew existed.
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The brilliance of Max Brooks is that he always quotes authorities at the back of his books that never existed.…
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The advertising world had space men in it before spacemen existed.
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Everything that has existed, lingers in the Eternity.
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