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Salman Rushdie Quotes

Indian - Novelist | June 19, 1947 -

Human beings, you see, do absolutely two primary things. We see like and unlike. Like becomes, in literature, simile and metaphor. Unlike becomes uniqueness and difference, from which I believe, the novel is born.

Believe Literature You Born Two See

We cannot allow religious hooligans to place limiting points on thought.

Thought Place Cannot Religious Allow

I'm not a very big fan of 'Slumdog Millionaire.' I think it's visually brilliant. But I have problems with the story line. I find the storyline unconvincing.

Story Problems Think Find Brilliant

It is literature which for me opened the mysterious and decisive doors of imagination and understanding. To see the way others see. To think the way others think. And above all, to feel.

Imagination Me Think Understanding

A poet's work is to name the unnamable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it going to sleep.

Work Sleep World Start Name Stop

Free societies are societies in motion, and with motion comes friction.

Free Motion Friction Free Societies

My children are English, and both of their mothers were English.

Children Mothers English Both Were

I can walk into a bookshop and point out a number of books that I find very unattractive in what they say. But it doesn't occur to me to burn the bookshop down. If you don't like a book, read another book. If you start reading a book and you decide you don't like it, nobody is telling you to finish it.

Walk Me Start Book Reading You

Chekhov is this poet of melancholy and isolation and of wishing you were somewhere else than where you are.

Isolation You Somewhere Poet Where

The thing that always attracted me to New York was the sense of being in a place where a lot of people had a lot of stories not unlike mine. Everybody comes from somewhere else. Everyone's got a Polish grandmother, some kind of metamorphosis in their family circumstances. That's a very big thing - the experience of not living where you started.

Family Experience New York People Me

Discovery is fun. I am incredibly open to everything.

I Am Fun Discovery Open Everything

I'm a big-city boy. What I like is big cities. It's not just what I like. It's what I write about.

Boy Write Big Just Like About

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