QUOTES by Salman Rushdie
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The lessons one learns at school are not always the ones the school thinks it's teaching.
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A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it; or offer your own version in return.
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Perhaps, if one wishes to remain an individual in the midst of the teeming multitudes, one must make oneself grotesque.
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He knew what he knew: that the real world was full of magic, so magical worlds could easily be real.
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Nothing comes from nothing, Thieflet; no story comes from nowhere; new stories are born from old--it is the new combinations that make them new.
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Make as much racket as you like people. Noise is life and an excess of noise is a sign that life is good. There will be time for us all to be quiet when we are safely dead.
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Question: What is the opposite of faith? Not disbelief. Too final, certain, closed. Itself is a kind of belief. Doubt.
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I learned: the first lesson of my life: nobody can face the world with his eyes open all the time.
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We are described into corners, and then we must describe ourselves out of corners.
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Vertigo is the conflict between the fear of falling and the desire to fall.
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Not all possibilities are open to us. The world is finite; our hopes spill over its rim.
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Books choose their authors; the act of creation is not entirely a rational and conscious one.
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A sigh isn't just a sigh. We inhale the world and breathe out meaning. While we can. While we can.
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Reality is a question of perspective; the further you get from the past, the more concrete and plausible it seems - but as you approach the present, it inevitably seems more and more incredible.
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Something was badly amiss with the spiritual life of the planet...Too many demons inside people claiming to believe in God.
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We were language's magpies by nature, stealing whatever sounded bright and shiny.
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So India’s problem turns out to be the world’s problem. What happened in India has happened in God’s name. The problem’s name is God.
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No people whose word for 'yesterday' is the same as their word for 'tomorrow' can be said to have a firm grip on the time.
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The only people who see the whole picture,' he murmured, 'are the ones who step out of the frame.
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Free societies...are societies in motion, and with motion comes tension, dissent, friction. Free people strike sparks, and those sparks are the best evidence of freedom's existence.
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To understand just one life you have to swallow the world ... do you wonder, then, that I was a heavy child?
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A poet's work . . . to name the unnamable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world and stop it from going to sleep.
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