Salman Rushdie Quotes
I came as a writer to be very interested in the questions of the borderlines, of the boundaries... Great literature doesn't happen when there is no risk. It happens at the edges. 
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Throughout human history, the apostles of purity, those who have claimed to possess a total explanation, have wrought havoc among mere mixed-up human beings.
- Salman Rushdie
However, in the end, the question [remains]: Why him and not the man standing next to him? Why did this person become a terrorist whereas the person standing next to him, suffering all the same privations, having probably all the same political points of view, did not become a terrorist? The answer to that is an old novelistic answer. The answer to that is character .
- Salman Rushdie