34 Quotations by Salman Rushdie
- 21. The idea of the sacred is quite simply one of the most conservative notions in any culture, because ...
- 22. The idea of the sacred is quite simply one of the most conservative notions in any culture, because ...
- 23. The liveliness of literature lies in its exceptionality, in being the individual, idiosyncratic visi ...
- 24. The novel does not seek to establish a privileged language but it insists upon the freedom to portra ...
- 25. The only privilege literature deserves -- and this privilege it requires in order to exist -- is the ...
- 26. The real risks for any artist are taken in pushing the work to the limits of what is possible, in th ...
- 27. Throughout human history, the apostles of purity, those who have claimed to possess a total explanat ...
- 28. We must conclude that it is not only a particular political ideology that has failed, but the idea t ...
- 29. What distinguishes a great artist from a weak one is first their sensibility and tenderness; second, ...
- 30. When thought becomes excessively painful, action is the finest remedy.
- 31. Where there is no belief, there is no blasphemy.
- 32. Whores and writers, Mahound. We are the people you can't forgive.
- 33. Writers and politicians are natural rivals. Both groups try to make the world in their own images; t ...
- 34. Your blasphemy, Salman, can't be forgiven. To set your words against the Words of God.
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