Salman Rushdie quote: Literature is where I go to explore the highest and lowest places in human society and in the human spirit, ...

Literature is where I go to explore the highest and lowest places in human society and in the human spirit, where I hope to find not absolute truth but the truth of the tale, of the imagination, and of the heart.

~ Salman Rushdie ~

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