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A poet's work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it going to sleep.
Written by Salman Rushdie
What one writer can make in the solitude of one room is something no power can easily destroy.
Written by Salman Rushdie
What distinguishes a great artist from a weak one is first their sensibility and tenderness; second, their imagination, and third, their industry.
Written by Salman Rushdie
It is very, very easy not to be offended by a book. You just have to shut it.
Written by Salman Rushdie
Our lives teach us who we are.
Written by Salman Rushdie
I hate admitting that my enemies have a point.
Written by Salman Rushdie
A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it; or offer your own version in return.
Written by Salman Rushdie
Most of what matters in your life takes place in your absence.
Written by Salman Rushdie
Be sure that you go to the author to get at his meaning, not to find yours.
Written by Salman Rushdie
Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself.
Written by Salman Rushdie
If Woody Allen were a Muslim, he'd be dead by now.
Written by Salman Rushdie
I do not need the idea of God to explain the world I live in.
Written by Salman Rushdie
When thought becomes excessively painful, action is the finest remedy.
Written by Salman Rushdie
Sometimes legends make reality, and become more useful than the facts.
Written by Salman Rushdie
Vertigo is the conflict between the fear of falling and the desire to fall.
Written by Salman Rushdie
What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.
Written by Salman Rushdie
Our lives are not what we deserve; they are, let us agree, in many ways deficient.
Written by Salman Rushdie
If I were asked for a one-sentence sound bite on religion, I would say I was against it.
Written by Salman Rushdie
One of the extraordinary things about human events is that the unthinkable becomes thinkable.
Written by Salman Rushdie
In this world without quiet corners, there can be no easy escapes from history, from hullabaloo, from terrible, unquiet fuss.
Written by Salman Rushdie
Rock and roll music - the music of freedom frightens people and unleashes all manner of conservative defense mechanisms.
Written by Salman Rushdie
Writers and politicians are natural rivals. Both groups try to make the world in their own images; they fight for the same territory.
Written by Salman Rushdie
Books choose their authors; the act of creation is not entirely a rational and conscious one.
Written by Salman Rushdie
Doubt, it seems to me, is the central condition of a human being in the twentieth century.
Written by Salman Rushdie
Names, once they are in common use, quickly become mere sounds, their etymology being buried, like so many of the earth's marvels, beneath the dust of habit.
Written by Salman Rushdie
Throughout human history, the apostles of purity, those who have claimed to possess a total explanation, have wrought havoc among mere mixed-up human beings.
Written by Salman Rushdie
I used to say, 'There is a God-shaped hole in me.' For a long time I stressed the absence, the hole. Now I find it is the shape which has become more important.
Written by Salman Rushdie
Such is the miraculous nature of the future of exiles: what is first uttered in the impotence of an overheated apartment becomes the fate of nations.
Written by Salman Rushdie
The idea of the sacred is quite simply one of the most conservative notions in any culture, because it seeks to turn other ideas - uncertainty, progress, change - into crimes.
Written by Salman Rushdie
The acceptance that all that is solid has melted into the air, that reality and morality are not givens but imperfect human constructs, is the point from which fiction begins.
Written by Salman Rushdie

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