I make no complaint. I am a writer. I do not accept my condition; I will strive to change it; but I inhabit it, I am trying to lea
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Salman Rushdie quotes
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Books choose their authors; the act of creation is not entirely a rational and conscious one.
Our lives teach us who we are.
The liveliness of literature lies in its exceptionality, in being the individual, idiosyncratic vision of one human being, in whic
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Throughout human history, the apostles of purity, those who have claimed to possess a total explanation, have wrought havoc among
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Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself.
One of the extraordinary things about human events is that the unthinkable becomes thinkable.
Literature is the one place in any society where, within the secrecy of our own heads, we can hear voices talking about everything
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The only privilege literature deserves--and this privilege it requires in order to exist--is the privilege of being in the arena o
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The idea of the sacred is quite simply one of the most conservative notions in any culture, because it seeks to turn other ideas--
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