"It's always been colossally important to me that my books should be well received in India. It's where I come from."

-- Salman Rushdie

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“Every authentic poem contributes to the labor of poetry... to bring together what life has separated or violence has torn apart... Poetry can repair no loss, but it defies the space which separates. And it does this by its continual labor of reassembling what has been scattered.”
“I support [FRAME's] objectives, largely because I do not believe that results of tests conducted on animals will be neccessarily relevant to human beings...”
“Refinement that carries us away from our fellow-men is not God's refinement.”
“I never have plans for the future as you never know how things will turn out.”
“The first novel that I wrote was because I was having very interesting sorts of experiences, for Indians of my generation.”

Source : Source: www.edgemagazine.net
“There are loads of sociopolitical, racial, class and future-planet situations that really interest me, but I'm not really interested in making a film about them in a film that feels like reality because people view that in a different way. I like using science fiction to talk about subjects through the veneer of science fiction.”

Source : Interview with Geoff Boucher, herocomplex.latimes.com. January 4, 2010.
“I'm a short woman with a pretty good body and large breasts â€” that's not what I think of as sexy.”

Source : "There Are Worse Things I Could Do". Book by Adrienne Barbeau, 2006.
“Men of integrity, by their very existence, rekindle the belief that as a people we can live above the level of moral squalor. We need that belief; a cynical community is a corrupt community.”

Source : Dr. John W. Gardner (2015). “Excellence: Can We Be Equal And Excellent Too?”, p.164, Pickle Partners Publishing

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