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Salman Rushdie Quotes

Such is the miraculous nature of the future of exiles: what is first uttered in the impotence of an overheated apartment becomes the fate of nations.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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Nature Future Fate First Apartment

What was unique about me being in City Hall during the Giuliani Administration, I was the only one who wasn't an attorney. I may have been the only one who didn't work in a prosecutor's office. So I took a completely different point of view on how the city should be run. Very close to a business, very close on metrics and numbers.

Work Business City Me View Unique

If you want experiences to make you a better person, then you play two or three sports.

Sports Better Person Better You Play

Some people swear by writing courses, but whether it really helps American poetry, I have doubts.

Poetry People Writing American Some

Nothing in fine print is ever good news.

Good Good News News Nothing Fine

People underestimate the hip-hop audience and the capacity to understand politics when it's part of music.

Music Politics People Understand

I've only been in love with a beer bottle and a mirror.

Love Mirror Beer Bottle Only Been

When I putt well, I do very well. When I putt poorly, I struggle to be in the game.

Struggle Game Well Putt Very Poorly

My grandparents moved to Texas from the South after the U.S. Civil War and settled on small farms in the Dallas-Ft. Worth area.

Robert Woodrow Wilson

War Small Texas Worth Grandparents

Portland is a two-hour flight from L.A. It has wonderful talent, and it hasn't been shot to death. I'm all in favor of it becoming a serious player in the industry.

Death Talent Serious Flight Industry

But then of course you reach a point where you have to say, I've got to figure out how this book's going to end. Otherwise, you're going to write yourself into so many dead-ends.

Yourself Book End Reach You Say

Father God, we just ask You to open Your wide, wide arms and look down upon us, Lord, and lead us, and let us know what we should do to stop this, this terrible, terrible holocaust.

Father God You Look Down Holocaust

When I left the Treasury, there was a poll that showed - and I don't remember the numbers exactly right - something like 90% of the people were against TARP. It prevented a disaster, but you don't get credit for a disaster that people don't see.

People Remember Credit You Numbers

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