Rushdie

Famous quotes containing the word rushdie:

    The novel does not seek to establish a privileged language but it insists upon the freedom to portray and analyse the struggle between the different contestants for such privileges.
    —Salman Rushdie (b. 1947)

    If Woody Allen were a Muslim, he’d be dead by now.
    —Salman Rushdie (b. 1947)

    We must conclude that it is not only a particular political ideology that has failed, but the idea that men and women could ever define themselves in terms that exclude their spiritual needs.
    —Salman Rushdie (b. 1948)