8 Quotes by Salman Rushdie about men


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    Women have always moaned about men...but it turns out that their deepest complaints are reserved for one another, because while they expect men to be fickle, treacherous, and weak, they judge their own sex by higher standards, they expect more from their own sex--loyalty, understanding, trustworthiness, love....

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    Many men start being friendly with women because they are trying to seduce them. I'm not trying to seduce them. I just like hanging out with them.

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    In television, the 60-minute series, 'The Wire' and 'Mad Men' and so on, the writer is the primary creative artist.

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    Many of us didn't believe in the image of bin Laden as a wandering Old Man of the Mountains, living on plants and insects in an inhospitable cave somewhere on the porous Pakistan-Afghan border.

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    Having been borne across the world, we are translated men. It is normally supposed that something always gets lost in translation; I cling, obstinately, to the notion that something can also be gained.

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    Bin Laden was born filthy rich and died in a rich man's house, which he had painstakingly built to the highest specifications.

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    A man is sane only to the extent that he subscribes to a previously-agreed construction of reality.

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