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He did not wish to be divine. If there had never been a God, the emperor thought, it might have been easier to work out — Salman Rushdie, The Enchantress of Florence
Books choose their authors — the act of creation is not entirely a rational and conscious one.
She allowed history to leave her without trying to hold it back, the way children allow a grand parade to pass, holding — Salman Rushdie, Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights
Reality is a question of perspective; the further you get from the past, the more concrete and plausible it seems - but — Salman Rushdie, Midnight's Children
..now, seated hunched over paper in a pool of Anglepoised light, I no longer want to be anything except what who I am. W — Salman Rushdie
On page 605, Blumenthal says that 'I made friends with Hitchens's friends the novelists Martin Amis and Salman Rushdie.' — Christopher Hitchens
To take a side against Rushdie, or to be neutral and evasive about him in the name of some vaguely sensitive ecumenical — Christopher Hitchens
From birds she learned how to sing — from cats she learned a form of dangerous independence.
Ravings, in short, jealousy of the past, the worst kind of all. — Salman Rushdie, The Satanic Verses
...what a leveller this remote-control gizmo was...it chopped down the heavyweight and stretched out the slight until al — Salman Rushdie, The Satanic Verses