Quotes

Salman RushdieSalman Rushdie19 Jun 1947

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  • ''Reality is a question of perspective; the further you get from the past, the more concrete and plausible it seems—but as you approach the present, it inevitably seems incredible.''
  • ''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.''
  • ''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.''
  • ''Whores and writers, Mahound. We are the people you can't forgive.''
  • ''I hate admitting that my enemies have a point.''
Salman Rushdie
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Salman Rushdie

Sir Ahmed Salman Rushdie is a British Indian novelist and essayist. His second novel, Midnight's Children (1981), won the Booker Prize in 1981 and was deemed to be "the best novel of all winners" on two separate occasions, marking the 25th and the 40th annive…

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