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Salman Rushdie Quotes

«[He was also] the most tolerant, open-minded, intellectually generous, nonjudgmental adult that I ever met as a child, ... the spirit of my grandfather came to infuse the spirit of the place.»
«the former colonial powers were drawing lines all over the world. And many of the ills of the world since then are the consequence of those acts.»
«This looks like it's over. It means everything, it means freedom.»
«I have a deep feeling for Kashmir, and I just had to write this book, ... [But] it's very hard to write about real events. It becomes unbearable. The challenge in writing this book was: how do you write about these things bearably without sweetening the pill?»
«One of the strange things that happens when you publish a book is that you begin ... to see what resonances it has for the readers, ... Sometimes you begin to understand your book a bit more.»
«That's the sadness of Kashmir,»
«What I was trying to show was the creation of extremely violent individuals from people like you and I, ... Shalimar was a happy, admired performer whose world was smashed, both inside and out. That double fracture provided the fissure for him to slip through.»
«I came as a writer to be very interested in the questions of the borderlines, of the boundaries, ... Great literature doesn't happen when there is no risk. It happens at the edges.»
«to make convincing such a huge change in a single human life.»
«I suppose what I'm really saying,»

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