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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.
~ Salman Rushdie
Book
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Offer
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Version
World
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Your
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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.
~ Salman Rushdie
Argument
Frauds
Going
Name
Poet
Point
Shape
Sides
Sleep
Start
Stop
Take
Work
World
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Be sure that you go to the author to get at his meaning, not to find yours.
~ Salman Rushdie
Author
Find
Get
Go
His
Meaning
Sure
You
Yours
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Books choose their authors; the act of creation is not entirely a rational and conscious one.
~ Salman Rushdie
Act
Authors
Books
Choose
Conscious
Creation
Entirely
Rational
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Doubt, it seems to me, is the central condition of a human being in the twentieth century.
~ Salman Rushdie
Being
Central
Century
Condition
Doubt
Human
Human Being
Me
Seems
Twentieth
Twentieth Century
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Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself.
~ Salman Rushdie
Ball
Ball Game
Free
Free Speech
Game
Itself
Life
Speech
Thing
Whole
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I do not need the idea of God to explain the world I live in.
~ Salman Rushdie
Explain
God
Idea
Live
Need
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I hate admitting that my enemies have a point.
~ Salman Rushdie
Admitting
Enemies
Hate
Point
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I used to say, 'There is a God-shaped hole in me.' For a long time I stressed the absence, the hole. Now I find it is the shape which has become more important.
~ Salman Rushdie
Absence
Become
Find
Hole
Important
Long
Long Time
Me
More
Now
Say
Shape
Stressed
Time
Used
Which
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If I were asked for a one-sentence sound bite on religion, I would say I was against it.
~ Salman Rushdie
Against
Asked
Bite
Religion
Say
Sound
Sound Bite
Were
Would
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If Woody Allen were a Muslim, he'd be dead by now.
~ Salman Rushdie
Allen
Dead
He
Muslim
Now
Were
Woody
Woody Allen
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In this world without quiet corners, there can be no easy escapes from history, from hullabaloo, from terrible, unquiet fuss.
~ Salman Rushdie
Corners
Easy
Escapes
Fuss
History
Quiet
Terrible
Without
World
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It is very, very easy not to be offended by a book. You just have to shut it.
~ Salman Rushdie
Book
Easy
Just
Offended
Shut
Very
You
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Most of what matters in your life takes place in your absence.
~ Salman Rushdie
Absence
Life
Matters
Most
Place
Takes
Your
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Names, once they are in common use, quickly become mere sounds, their etymology being buried, like so many of the earth's marvels, beneath the dust of habit.
~ Salman Rushdie
Become
Being
Beneath
Buried
Common
Dust
Earth
Habit
Like
Many
Mere
Names
Once
Quickly
Sounds
Use
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One of the extraordinary things about human events is that the unthinkable becomes thinkable.
~ Salman Rushdie
About
Becomes
Events
Extraordinary
Extraordinary Things
Human
Things
Thinkable
Unthinkable
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Our lives are not what we deserve; they are, let us agree, in many ways deficient.
~ Salman Rushdie
Agree
Deficient
Deserve
Let Us
Lives
Many
Our
Our Lives
Us
Ways
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Our lives teach us who we are.
~ Salman Rushdie
Lives
Our
Our Lives
Teach
Us
Who
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Rock and roll music - the music of freedom frightens people and unleashes all manner of conservative defense mechanisms.
~ Salman Rushdie
Conservative
Defense
Freedom
Frighten
Manner
Mechanisms
Music
People
Rock
Roll
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Sometimes legends make reality, and become more useful than the facts.
~ Salman Rushdie
Become
Facts
Legends
Make
More
Reality
Sometimes
Than
Useful
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