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Certainly, the Hollywood cinema, there's almost nothing of interest coming out of there. — Salman Rushdie

I'm a world expert on superhero comics. I think maybe only Michael Chabon knows more than me. — Salman Rushdie

To know one man's story you have to swallow the world. — Salman Rushdie

You can take the boy out of Bombay; you can't take Bombay out of the boy, you know. — Salman Rushdie

If a hungry dog looks for food, he does not look in the doghouse. — Salman Rushdie

The reason why books endure is because there are enough people who like them. It's the only reason why books last. — Salman Rushdie

The adult chops down his childhood to help his grown-up self. The unsentimentality is appealing, don't you think? — Salman Rushdie

Peace broke out. — Salman Rushdie

I have been so-many too-many persons; life, unlike syntax, allows one more than three. — Salman Rushdie

I learned: the first lesson of my life: nobody can face the world with his eyes open all the time. — Salman Rushdie

I think that England made a very big, historical mistake to allow itself to become the kind of terrorist capital of the world. — Salman Rushdie

English, no longer, an English language, now grows from many roots. — Salman Rushdie

If he believed in souls he would have said she had a good one. — Salman Rushdie

In the end, you write the book that grabs you by the throat and demands to be written. — Salman Rushdie

William the Conqueror, it is said, began by eating a mouthful of English sand. — Salman Rushdie

Naught but love makes magic real. — Salman Rushdie

This is our tragedy, she said in his words, our fictions are killing us, but if we didn't have those fictions, maybe that would kill us too. — Salman Rushdie

No, sir. A sin. A suchmuch thing. — Salman Rushdie

It isn't right for the artist to become the servant of the state. — Salman Rushdie

The world is not ideas, rich kid, the world is things. If you have things, you have time to dream, if you don't ... You'll fight. — Salman Rushdie

Beware the man (or jinni) of action when he finally seeks to better himself with thought. A little thinking is a dangerous thing. — Salman Rushdie

All art began as sacred art, you know? I mean, all painting began as religious painting. All writing began as religious writing. — Salman Rushdie

I am on Facebook, but mainly as a way to spy on my children. I find out more about them from their Facebook pages than from what they tell me. — Salman Rushdie

I grew up kissing books and bread, — Salman Rushdie

What one writer can make in the solitude of one room is something no power can easily destroy. — Salman Rushdie

My horizon's have shrunk and I have only endings to write. — Salman Rushdie

Everything has shape, if you look for it. There is no escape from form. — Salman Rushdie

Once you put a thought into the world, it can be disagreed with, but it can't be unthought. — Salman Rushdie

Originality is dangerous. — Salman Rushdie

If power was a a cry, then human lives were lived in the echo of the cries of others. — Salman Rushdie

You observe ... that when it's time to unleash a few insults, a man will always choose his mother tongue. — Salman Rushdie

They are the Eggheads. He is the Walrus. — Salman Rushdie

So India's problem turns out to be the world's problem. What happened in India has happened in God's name.
The problem's name is God. — Salman Rushdie

I became a writer because I got addicted to story. The first storyteller in my life was my father. — Salman Rushdie

I have been a film buff all my life and believe that the finest cinema is fully the equal of the best novels. — Salman Rushdie

The old man heard the music of the imperialists issuing from the golden hotel, heavy with the gaiety of despair... — Salman Rushdie

When you are making an independent film, money is never an issue. — Salman Rushdie

She has vivid pictures of Hell. It is as hot as Rajputana in June and everyone is made to learn seven foreign languages ... — Salman Rushdie

Genius was being born in her, filling the empty spaces in her bed, her heart, her womb. She needed no-one but herself. — Salman Rushdie

After a winter's gestation in its eggshell of ice, the valley had beaked its way out into the open, moist and yellow. — Salman Rushdie

British society has never been cleansed of the filth of imperialism. — Salman Rushdie

adamant. 'They would be the wrong publishers for you.' Later, after — Salman Rushdie

A little bit of one story joins onto an idea from another, and hey presto, ... not old tales but new ones. Nothing comes from nothing. — Salman Rushdie

I do not envy people who think they have a complete explanation of the world, for the simple reason that they are obviously wrong. — Salman Rushdie

Life again refused to remain lifesized — Salman Rushdie

After a long, hopeless war, people will settle for peace, at almost any price. — Salman Rushdie

In general, writers shouldn't be killed for what they write, though I can think of exceptions. — Salman Rushdie

To live in Metropolis was to know that the exceptional was as commonplace as diet soda, that abnormality was the popcorn norm. — Salman Rushdie

The West was involved in toppling the Mossadegh government. That ultimately led to the Iranian revolution. — Salman Rushdie

He had picked up languages the way most sailors pick up diseases; languages were his gonorrhoea, his syphilis, his scurvy, his ague, his plague. — Salman Rushdie

If the creative artist worries if he will still be free tomorrow, then he will not be free today. — Salman Rushdie

I've never yet managed to write a novel which didn't have an Indian central character. — Salman Rushdie

It is often said by religious people that without its framework, there is no sense of right or wrong. My view is that religion comes after ethics. — Salman Rushdie

Is birth always a fall? — Salman Rushdie

I'm a big-city boy. What I like is big cities. It's not just what I like. It's what I write about. — Salman Rushdie

Now I know what a ghost is. Unfinished business, that's what. — Salman Rushdie

Rock n' roll was a kid when I was a kid. — Salman Rushdie

I've never rejected the world I came from. To be rejected by it is horrible. — Salman Rushdie

Look at history. It's not the account of a species at peace. — Salman Rushdie

They were deeply in love, which beats earplugs. — Salman Rushdie

Life is lived forward but is judged in reverse. — Salman Rushdie

If I had simply wanted to trade on an insult to Islam, I could have done it in a sentence rather than writing a 250,000-word novel, a work of fiction. — Salman Rushdie

but something was given in exchange for what was lost — Salman Rushdie

To see things plainly, you have to cross a frontier. — Salman Rushdie

If you actually want to change your world, there is a better way of doing it than blowing yourself up. — Salman Rushdie

This may be the curse of human race . Not that we are different from one anther , but we are so alike . — Salman Rushdie

Peace, perfect peace, in this dark world of sin? The Blood of Jesus whispers peace within. — Salman Rushdie

We are the creature that tells itself stories to understand what sort of creature it is. — Salman Rushdie

When you write, you write out of your best self. Everything else drops away. — Salman Rushdie

Montgomery Clift in I Confess? — Salman Rushdie

Maybe unhappiness is the continuum through which a human life moves, and joy just a series of blips, of islands in the stream. — Salman Rushdie

Freedom to reject is the only freedom. — Salman Rushdie

In the movies, the writer is just the servant, the employee. — Salman Rushdie

It is commonly and, I believe, accurately said of Pakistan that her women are much more impressive than her men. — Salman Rushdie

This was a species with an exceptional ability to ignore its approaching doom. — Salman Rushdie

What would a respectful political cartoon look like? — Salman Rushdie

Books choose their authors; the act of creation is not entirely a rational and conscious one. — Salman Rushdie

When people do the cowardly thing, it's not about respect, it's about fear. — Salman Rushdie

If a birth is the fall-out from the explosion caused by the union of two unstable elements, then perhaps a half-life is all we can expect. — Salman Rushdie

Raif Badawi's is an important voice for all of us to hear. — Salman Rushdie

My mother's pregnancy, it seems, was fated; my birth, however, owed a good deal to accident. — Salman Rushdie

Bread and books: food for the body and food for the soul - what could be more worthy of our respect, and even love? — Salman Rushdie

Fifteen years old! Okay, okay. In our part of the world that's not so young. — Salman Rushdie

He met her on 26 December 1969, five days before the end of the sixties, when he was twenty-two and she was twenty-one. — Salman Rushdie

To reflect is to regain a little, lost sense of proportion — Salman Rushdie

What kind of God is it who's upset by a cartoon in Danish?
[Interview with Bill Moyers, Bill Moyers on Faith & Reason, June 23, 2006] — Salman Rushdie

Writers have an opinion about the world and offer arguments about the world. They should offer contemplation. — Salman Rushdie

They came in search of the hot stuff, just like any man calling on a tart. — Salman Rushdie

The problem's name is God. — Salman Rushdie

The actor's life offers, on a daily basis, the simulacrum of love; a mask can be satisfied, or at least consoled, by the echo of what it seeks. — Salman Rushdie

It may be argued that the past is a country from which we have all emigrated, that its loss is part of our common humanity. — Salman Rushdie

I dislike arranged marriages. There are some mistakes for which one should not be able to blame one's poor parents. — Salman Rushdie

She's no flibberti-gibberti mamzell, but a whir-stir-get-lost-sir bundla dynamite! — Salman Rushdie

A poet's work ... to name the unnamable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world and stop it from going to sleep. — Salman Rushdie

I'm a novelist. Fortunately I don't have to rule the world. — Salman Rushdie

We crave permission openly to become our secret selves. — Salman Rushdie

Beware, the light seemed to say, for I come to burn and judge. — Salman Rushdie

Airport security exists to guard us against terrorist attacks. — Salman Rushdie

She saw him fracture into rainbow colors through the prism of her love. — Salman Rushdie

Good advice Is Rarer Than Rubies — Salman Rushdie