Salman Rushdie Quotes
If you look at Indian movies, every time they wanted an exotic locale, they would have a dance number in Kashmir. Kashmir was India's fairyland. Indians went there because in a hot country you go to a cold place. People would be entranced by the sight of snow.
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I learned a lesson that I don't ever want to be a CEO.
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I am healthy and happy.
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No, I didn't work it out upside down, I never turned it around.
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I'm an Indian-origin painter. I will remain so to my last breath.
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Oh the innocent girl in her maiden teens knows perfectly well what everything means.
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I believe there is little to gain by exchanging opinions with other artists concerning either the ideology of art or technical methods.
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If you are not living this moment, you are not really living.
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You never know who's going to become your friend. Friends are always chance meetings.
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Only a well-fed, well-housed, well-schooled people can enjoy the blessings of liberty.
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Burroughs called his greatest novel 'Naked Lunch,' by which he meant it's what you see on the end of a fork. Telling the truth. It's very difficult to do that in fiction because the whole process of writing fiction is a process of sidestepping the truth. I think he got very close to it, in his way, and I hope I've done the same in mine.
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If you look at Indian movies, every time they wanted an exotic locale, they would have a dance number in Kashmir. Kashmir was India's fairyland. Indians went there because in a hot country you go to a cold place. People would be entranced by the sight of snow.
