Salman Rushdie/the Satanic Verses and The Fatw%c4%81

Famous quotes containing the words salman rushdie, rushdie, satanic and/or verses:

    In this world without quiet corners, there can be no easy escapes from history, from hullabaloo, from terrible, unquiet fuss.
    Salman Rushdie (b. 1947)

    Writers and politicians are natural rivals. Both groups try to make the world in their own images; they fight for the same territory.
    —Salman Rushdie (b. 1947)

    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)