Quotes Tagged With :rushdie

To take a side against Rushdie, or to be neutral and evasive about him in the name of some vaguely sensitive....

On page 605, Blumenthal says that 'I made friends with Hitchens's friends the novelists Martin Amis and....

She allowed history to leave her without trying to hold it back, the way children allow a grand parade....

What do you most value in your friends?Their continued existence.

Ravings, in short, jealousy of the past, the worst kind of all.

He did not wish to be divine. If there had never been a God, the emperor thought, it might have been....

Reality is a question of perspective; the further you get from the past, the more concrete and plausible....

The moment you say that any idea system is sacred, whether it’s a religious belief system or a secular....

..now, seated hunched over paper in a pool of Anglepoised light, I no longer want to be anything except....

In a public dialogue with Salman in London he [Edward Said] had once described the Palestinian plight....