Indian - Novelist | June 19, 1947 -
Broad-mindedness is related to tolerance; open-mindedness is the sibling of peace.
Salman Rushdie
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In this world without quiet corners, there can be no easy escapes from history, from hullabaloo, from terrible, unquiet fuss.
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At the height of the British Empire very few English novels were written that dealt with British power. It's extraordinary that at the moment in which England was the global superpower the subject of British power appeared not to interest most writers.
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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 - uncertainty, progress, change - into crimes.
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I do think that there is such a thing as human nature, and that the things that we have in common are perhaps greater than the things that divide us.
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The world is full of things that upset people. But most of us deal with it and move on and don't try and burn the planet down.
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A poet's work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it going to sleep.
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What one writer can make in the solitude of one room is something no power can easily destroy.
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What distinguishes a great artist from a weak one is first their sensibility and tenderness; second, their imagination, and third, their industry.
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It is very, very easy not to be offended by a book. You just have to shut it.
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Our lives teach us who we are.
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I hate admitting that my enemies have a point.
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