Salman Rushdie Quotes


Salman Rushdie

A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it; or offer your own version in return.

Our lives teach us who we are.

Vertigo is the conflict between the fear of falling and the desire to fall.

What distinguishes a great artist from a weak one is first their sensibility and tenderness; second, their imagination, and third, their industry.

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.






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