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Salman Rushdie Quotes

Indian - Novelist | June 19, 1947 -

I've never seen anywhere in the world as beautiful as Kashmir. It has something to do with the fact that the valley is very small and the mountains are very big, so you have this miniature countryside surrounded by the Himalayas, and it's just spectacular. And it's true, the people are very beautiful too.

Beautiful Mountains People World You

In an ideal world, you could reunite the Pakistan-occupied part of Kashmir with the Indian-occupied part and restore the old borders. You could have both India and Pakistan agreeing to guarantee those borders, demilitarise the area, and to invest in it economically. In a sane world that would happen, but we don't live in a sane world.

Live World You India Old Borders

What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.

Freedom Without Expression Exist

I grew up reading 'The Jungle Books' and loving them.

Reading Loving Jungle Up Books Them

If you look at Indian movies, every time they wanted an exotic locale, they would have a dance number in Kashmir. Kashmir was India's fairyland. Indians went there because in a hot country you go to a cold place. People would be entranced by the sight of snow.

Snow Time Dance People Cold Look

War used to be something you could stand on the nearby hill and watch. Now we have total war; everybody's in it. We have total economics as well. Everything affects everybody. The Malaysian currency shakes, and people around the world are seriously affected.

War People Economics World Stand

An attack upon our ability to tell stories is not just censorship - it is a crime against our nature as human beings.

Nature Censorship Crime Human Tell

Vertigo is the conflict between the fear of falling and the desire to fall.

Fear Conflict Fall Desire Falling

Sometimes legends make reality, and become more useful than the facts.

Facts Reality Sometimes Become More

One of the extraordinary things about human events is that the unthinkable becomes thinkable.

Human Events Extraordinary Things

Original thought, original artistic expression is by its very nature questioning, irreverent, iconoclastic.

Nature Thought Questioning Expression

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.

Good People Good People Bad People

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