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“ ”A poet's work . . . to name the unnamable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world and stop it from going to sleep.
About Salman Rushdie
Sir Salman Rushdie (born Ahmed Salman Rushdie, Urdu: أحمد سلمان رشدی, Hindi: अह्मद सलमान रश्डी on 19 June 1947) is an Indian-born British novelist and essayist. Most of his work is set on the Indian subcontinent.
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Additional quotes by Salman Rushdie
The lessons one learns at school are not always the ones the school thinks it's teaching.
perhaps, if one wishes to remain an individual in the midst of the teeming multitudes, one must make oneself grotesque.
He remembered the old Chinese proverb, sometimes ascribed to Confucius: If you sit by the river for long enough, the body of your enemy will float by.