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Famous Salman Rushdie Quotes
“We are described into corners, and then we must describe ourselves out of corners.”
“Now I know what a ghost is. Unfinished business, that's what.”
“We were language's magpies by nature, stealing whatever sounded bright and shiny.”
“One minute you've got a lucky star watching over you and the next instant it's done a bunk.”
“Language upon a silvered tongue affords enchantment enough.”
“My horizon's have shrunk and I have only endings to write.”
“A man who catches History's eye is thereafter bound to a mistress from whom he will never escape.”
“Why obliterate the exceptional merely in order to make the outstanding look finer than it was?”
“Perhaps the story you finish is never the one you begin.”
“She's no flibberti-gibberti mamzell, but a whir-stir-get-lost-sir bundla dynamite!”
“From the beginning men used God to justify the unjustifiable.”
“What's the use of stories that aren't even true?”