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Salman Rushdie
7 quotes
Quotes
- “When a reader falls in love with a book, it leaves its essence inside him, like radioactive fallout in an arable field, ...”
- “I do have a lot of time for people in my life, and friendship is a very important subject for me. I think I'm unusual am...”
- “Friendships are the family we make - not the one we inherit. I've always been someone to whom friendship, elective affin...”
- “A poet's work . . . to name the unnamable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world and stop ...”
- “A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it; or offer your own version in return.”
- “Books choose their authors; the act of creation is not entirely a rational and conscious one.”
- “If I were asked for a one-sentence sound bite on religion, I would say I was against it.”