Salman Rushdie Quotes (91 quotes)

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„Memory is a way of telling you what's important to you.“
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„In a novel, if you're any good, you don't just have good people or bad people. You have complicated people. You have real people.“
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„Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself.“
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„Rock and roll music - the music of freedom frightens people and unleashes all manner of conservative defense mechanisms.“
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„This is going to make me sound ancient, but I remember Juhu Beach when there weren't any buildings on it. You'd go through countryside and arrive at this amazing beach. I remember driving from Delhi to the Qutab Minar through countryside. Mehrauli was a little village - that's all gone.“
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„The miniatures of the Mughal period are really the pinnacle of Indian artistic achievement. And not a single one of those paintings is done by an individual artist.“
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„It is often said by religious people that without its framework, there is no sense of right or wrong. My view is that religion comes after ethics.“
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„I do have a lot of time for people in my life, and friendship is a very important subject for me. I think I'm unusual among the writers I know in that respect.“
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„Writers shouldn't have lives that are interesting. It gets in the way of your work.“
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„If Turkey wants to join Europe, it will have to become a European country, and that might take a long time.“
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„You don't that often see writers being sought out when there are matters of great moment to discuss. And I think that's a loss.“
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„A thing that happens to migrants is that they lose many of the traditional things which root identity, which root the self.“
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„You don't fight radical conservatism with not-quite-so radical conservatism.“
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„Be sure that you go to the author to get at his meaning, not to find yours.“
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„Normally when I read, I don't like music playing.“
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„Our lives teach us who we are.“
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„The accidents of my life have given me the ability to make stories in which different parts of the world are brought together, sometimes harmoniously, sometimes in conflict, and sometimes both - usually both. The difficulty in these stories is that if you write about everywhere you can end up writing about nowhere.“
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„Nobody wants to read a 600 page book in which the author is fabulous throughout.“
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„In writing 'The Satanic Verses,' I think I was writing for the first time from the whole of myself. The English part, the Indian part. The part of me that loves London, and the part that longs for Bombay. And at my typewriter, alone, I could indulge this.“
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„When thought becomes excessively painful, action is the finest remedy.“
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Salman Rushdie
Author born: June 19, 1947
Nationality: Indian
Author Profession: Novelist

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