Indian - Novelist | June 19, 1947 -
A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it; or offer your own version in return.
Salman Rushdie
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Most of what matters in your life takes place in your absence.
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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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If Woody Allen were a Muslim, he'd be dead by now.
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I do not need the idea of God to explain the world I live in.
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Our lives are not what we deserve; they are, let us agree, in many ways deficient.
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If I were asked for a one-sentence sound bite on religion, I would say I was against it.
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Writers and politicians are natural rivals. Both groups try to make the world in their own images; they fight for the same territory.
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Books choose their authors; the act of creation is not entirely a rational and conscious one.
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Doubt, it seems to me, is the central condition of a human being in the twentieth century.
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Names, once they are in common use, quickly become mere sounds, their etymology being buried, like so many of the earth's marvels, beneath the dust of habit.
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Throughout human history, the apostles of purity, those who have claimed to possess a total explanation, have wrought havoc among mere mixed-up human beings.
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