Doubt, it seems to me, is the central condition of a human being in the twentieth century.
Salman RushdieBut love is what we want, not freedom. Who then is the unluckier man? The beloved, who is given his heart's desire and must for ever after fear its loss, or the free man, with his unlooked-for liberty, naked and alone between the captive armies of the earth?
Salman RushdieOriginality is dangerous. It challenges, questions, overturns assumptions, unsettles moral codes.
Salman RushdieI thought, you know, I would probably not have seen that. On the other hand, he's obviously completely telling the truth. So, then what is that? That's - I wanted to explore that. And then I wanted to talk about how ideas are born. And the big question that the book asks in a number of ways about a number of things is that. How does a new idea come into the world?
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