Quotes from The Satanic Verses — Salman Rushdie
born 1947 India
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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 from going to sleep.
The Satanic Verses (1988)
The world, somebody wrote, is the place we prove real by dying in it.
The Satanic Verses (1988)
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.
The Satanic Verses (1988)