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Salman Rushdie Quotes

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.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: indian
Birth: June 19, 1947

Topics

Work Sleep Poetry World Start Name

In 'The White Princess,' the women are leading the story, and they're holding everything together. It's definitely a world of women's empowerment.

Women Together World Story Princess

I'm the unknown everyone's already sick of.

Jessica Chastain

Sick Unknown Everyone

In winter, the stars seem to have rekindled their fires, the moon achieves a fuller triumph, and the heavens wear a look of a more exalted simplicity. Summer is more wooing and seductive, more versatile and human, appeals to the affections and the sentiments, and fosters inquiry and the art impulse.

Winter Stars Art Simplicity Moon

The acceptance of death gives you more of a stake in life, in living life happily, as it should be lived. Living for the moment.

Life Moment Acceptance Death You

I was excited by the process of Pandora, which I still think is a decent product. Not as great in actuality as it sounds. After the first hour, its weaknesses start to show up.

Great Start Think Process First Up

People have been convinced that growth for growth's sake is a good thing.

Good Growth People Been Convinced

Wars tend to be very public things, they are visible. There are correspondents traveling with the troops and you get daily dispatches.

Daily You Things Get Traveling Very

One of sports journalism's great ironies is that covering an Olympics can be wildly unhealthy. NBC shows athletes in peak health performing on the ice and snow, but not the haggard reporters subsisting for three weeks on stadium starches, cheap beer, deadlines, and little sleep.

Snow Health Sports Great Sleep Beer

I can't remember a time when I didn't write or make up stories, because it seemed to come with reading.

Time Reading Remember Write Up Come

The O.J. Simpson case, they had no understanding of that DNA evidence, and didn't want to.

Joseph Wambaugh

Understanding Want DNA Evidence Case

There is a profound difference between an activist judge and an engaged judge.

Judge Profound Difference Between

I have a disturbing problem with losing things. My vulnerability to loss-distress could properly be labeled not only inordinate, but neurotic.

Losing Problem Vulnerability Things

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