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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.
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.
Be sure that you go to the author to get at his meaning, not to find yours.
Books choose their authors; the act of creation is not entirely a rational and conscious one.
Doubt, it seems to me, is the central condition of a human being in the twentieth c... (more Salman Rushdie quotes)
He graduated from King's College, Cambridge in England with honors.
He attended Rugby School in Warwickshire, England.
Rushdie married Indian model and actress Padma Lakshmi in 2004 but in June 2007 he announced that they were divorcing.
He is the author of the controversial book The Satanic Verses.... (more Salman Rushdie trivia)
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