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Salman Rushdie Quotes

«Not even the visionary or mystical experience ever lasts very long. It is for art to capture that experience, to offer it to, in the case of literature, its readers; to be, for a secular, materialist culture, some sort of replacement for what the love of god offers in the world of faith.»
«If Woody Allen were a Muslim, he'd be dead by now.»
«Vertigo is the conflict between the fear of falling and the desire to fall.»
Author: Salman Rushdie (Writer) | About: Vertigo
«Be sure that you go to the author to get at his meaning, not to find yours.»
Author: Salman Rushdie (Writer) | Keywords: get at
«Your blasphemy, Salman, can't be forgiven. To set your words against the Words of God.»
Author: Salman Rushdie (Writer) | Keywords: blasphemy, forgiven
«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.»
«The acceptance that all that is solid has melted into the air, that reality and morality are not givens but imperfect human constructs, is the point from which fiction begins.»
Author: Salman Rushdie (Writer) | Keywords: constructs, givens, melted
«Sometimes legends make reality, and become more useful than the facts.»
Author: Salman Rushdie (Writer) | Keywords: legends
«Where there is no belief, there is no blasphemy.»
«I make no complaint. I am a writer. I do not accept my condition; I will strive to change it; but I inhabit it, I am trying to learn from it.»

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