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· <blockquote><a href="http://quotationsbook.com/author/6322/">Quotes by <em>Rushdie, Salman</em></a></blockquote><br> From <a href="http://quotationsbook.com">Quotations Book</a> ·

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"One of the extraordinary things about human events is that the unthinkable becomes thinkable."

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"Such is the miraculous nature of the future of exiles: what is first uttered in the impotence of an overheated apartment becomes the fate of nations."

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"Throughout human history, the apostles of purity, those who have claimed to possess a total explanation, have wrought havoc among mere mixed-up human beings."

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"The novel does not seek to establish a privileged language but it insists upon the freedom to portray and analyze the struggle between the different contestants for such privileges."

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"The acceptance that all that is solid has melted into the air, that reality and morality are not givens but imperfect human constructs, is the point from which fiction begins."

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"Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself."

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"If Woody Allen were a Muslim, he'd be dead by now."

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"If you want to tell the untold stories, if you want to give voice to the voiceless, you've got to find a language. Which goes for film as well as prose, for documentary as well as autobiography. Use the wrong language, and you're dumb and blind."

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"The liveliness of literature lies in its exceptionality, in being the individual, idiosyncratic vision of one human being, in which, to our delight and great surprise, we may find our own vision reflected."

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"The only privilege literature deserves -- and this privilege it requires in order to exist -- is the privilege of being in the arena of discourse, the place where the struggle of our languages can be acted out."

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