Famous quotes containing the words salman rushdie, rushdie, satanic and/or verses:
“I hate admitting that my enemies have a point.”
—Salman Rushdie (b. 1948)
“Your blasphemy, Salman, can’t be forgiven.... To set your words against the Words of God.”
—Salman Rushdie (b. 1948)
“of the satanic thistle that raises its horned symmetry
flowering above sister grass-daisies’ pink tiny
bloomlets angelic as lightbulbs—”
—Allen Ginsberg (b. 1926)
“Some may have blamed you that you took away
The verses that could move them on the day
When, the ears being deafened, the sight of the eyes blind
With lightning, you went from me....”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)