Best quotes by Salman Rushdie on World

Checkout quotes by Salman Rushdie on World

• ‟ I've never seen anywhere in the world as beautiful as Kashmir. It has something to do with the fact that the valley is very small and the mountains are very big, so you have this miniature countryside surrounded by the Himalayas, and it's just spectacular. And it's true, the people are very beautiful too.

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• ‟ A poet's work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it going to sleep.

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• ‟ A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it; or offer your own version in return.

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• ‟ Writers and politicians are natural rivals. Both groups try to make the world in their own images; they fight for the same territory.

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• ‟ Hyperrealism can create an atmosphere of surrealism because nobody sees the world in such detail.

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• ‟ A poet's work is to name the unnamable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it going to sleep.

  - Salman Rushdie
  

• ‟ This paranoid Islam, which blames outsider, 'infidels', for all the ills of Muslim societies, and whose proposed remedy is the closing of those societies to the rival project of modernity, is presently the fastest growing version of Islam in the world.

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• ‟ But there's one thing we must all be clear about: terrorism is not the pursuit of legitimate goals by some sort of illegitimate means. Whatever the murderers may be trying to achieve, creating a better world certainly isn't one of their goals. Instead they are out to murder innocent people.

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