Salman Rushdie
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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.” -Salman Rushdie
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“The response of anybody interested in liberty is that we all have a say and the ability to have an argument is exactly what liberty is, even though it may never be resolved. In any authoritarian society the possessor of power dictates, and if you try and step outside he will come after you.” -Salman…
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“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 religion had really almost disappeared the idea that religion was going to be a major force in the life of our societies, in the West anyway, would have seemed absurd…
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“What one writer can make in the solitude of one room is something no power can easily destroy.” -Salman Rushdie
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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.” -Salman Rushdie
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“What distinguishes a great artist from a weak one is first their sensibility and tenderness second, their imagination, and third, their industry.” -Salman Rushdie
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“There is a widespread difficulty in the Muslim world, which has to do with how the people are taught about examining their own history. A whole range of stuff has been placed off limits.” -Salman Rushdie
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“I’ve never had very high regard for therapists. I owe my health, my mental survival, to my friends and loved ones.” -Salman Rushdie
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“What distinguishes a great artist from a weak one is first their sensibility and tenderness second, their imagination, and third, their industry.” -Salman Rushdie
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“I do not need the idea of God to explain the world I live in.” -Salman Rushdie
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“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.” -Salman Rushdie
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“Rock and roll music – the music of freedom frightens people and unleashes all manner of conservative defense mechanisms.” -Salman Rushdie
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“Vertigo is the conflict between the fear of falling and the desire to fall.” -Salman Rushdie
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“If you actually want to change your world, there is a better way of doing it than blowing yourself up.” -Salman Rushdie
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