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If bigots behave like bigots, it's not a huge surprise. — Salman Rushdie

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

Generally, it is human endeavour to have young people lead, and you see that in public life in the U.S. and everywhere. — Salman Khurshid

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

Life's bruises demythologise us all. The earth gapes. — Salman Rushdie

I don't know what to say about literary critics. I think it's probably best to say nothing. — 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

Peace broke out. — Salman Rushdie

In my family we've always found the world's air hard to breathe; we arrive hoping for somewhere better. — Salman Rushdie

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

Naught but love makes magic real. — Salman Rushdie

taking his lead from Beckett's mighty Unnamable. I can't go on. I'll go on. — Salman Rushdie

Religion has moved out of the private space. ( ... ) The moment it moves into the public sphere it becomes everybody's business. — Salman Rushdie

I worked in SRK and Salman Khan's films as a child artiste, so Bollywood has always been on my radar. — Madhur Mittal

Everything is relative, one man's absolute belief is another man's fairy tale; — Salman Rushdie

Can one drown in one's element ... If fish can drown in water, can human beings suffocate in air? — Salman Rushdie

We were language's magpies by nature, stealing whatever sounded bright and shiny. — Salman Rushdie

Science fiction is always a vehicle for ideas. It's the form which allows either movies or books to be an exploration of how we should live. — Salman Rushdie

Terror is glamour - not only, but also. I am firmly convinced that there's something like a fascination with death among suicide bombers. — Salman Rushdie

O, Need's a funny fish: it makes people untruthful. They all suffer from it, but they will not always admit. — Salman Rushdie

If by some bizarre chance there turns out to be a god [ ... ], I'm willing to bet he's an atheist too. — Salman Rushdie

At last,' Padma says with satisfaction, 'you've learned how to tell things really fast. — Salman Rushdie

A man who catches History's eye is thereafter bound to a mistress from whom he will never escape. — Salman Rushdie

If somebody's trying to shut you up, sing louder, and if possible, better. — Salman Rushdie

One minute you've got a lucky star watching over you and the next instant it's done a bunk. — Salman Rushdie

A novel, I think, is partly about the contemporary and partly about the eternal, and it's the balance of that that's difficult to achieve. — Salman Rushdie

The thief's widow had turned him, before she married him, into a thief of a stupid and terrible kind, because she had made him rob himself. — Salman Rushdie

A race that rejected the idea of personal sacrifice would surely be erased from time's records before long. — Salman Rushdie

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

Everybody loves 'The Wire,' and I think it's okay, but in the end it's just a police series. — Salman Rushdie

It's obvious that I come down on the side of free speech for anybody's work. — Salman Rushdie

What's real and what's true aren't necessarily the same. — Salman Rushdie

In today's U.S., it's possible for almost anyone - women, gays, African-Americans, Jews - to run for, and be elected to, high office. — Salman Rushdie

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

Being God's postman is no fun, yar.
Butbutbut: God isn't in this picture.
God knows whose postman I've been. — Salman Rushdie

I don't think people cry reading 'Midnight's Children,' but a lot of people seem to cry watching the movie. — Salman Rushdie

Paul Theroux was sitting in the pew (at Bruce Chatwin's memorial service) behind him. "I suppose we'll be here for you next week, Salman," he said. — Salman Rushdie

For a fellow who's not to much to look at, you have the instincts of a champion. — Salman Rushdie

I think it's a very important function of art to challenge accepted reality, especially when that reality is created by powerful interest groups. — Salman Rushdie

And by that destiny, to perform an act Whereof what's past is prologue, what to come In yours and my discharge. — Salman Rushdie

But what I learned from the Widow's Hand is that whose who would be gods fear no one so much as other potential deities — Salman Rushdie

If you're offended, it's your problem. — Salman Rushdie

That's the trouble with you sad-city types: a place has to be miserable and dull as ditchwater before you believe it's real. — Salman Rushdie

There are perks attached to it [Salman's name] that I can use ... and raise money, but I think Being Human will be a lot bigger than Salman, — Salman Khan

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

It's Kennedy's war, Vietnam. Lyndon Johnson got all the flak, but it's Kennedy's war. — Salman Rushdie

Tai tapped his left nostril. 'You know what this is, Nakkoo? It's the place where the outside world meets the world inside you. — Salman Rushdie

I thought, let the best minds of my generation soliloquize about power over some other poor woman's body, I'm off. — Salman Rushdie

Saudi Arabia is one of India's most valued strategic partners. — Salman Khurshid

What's the use of stories that aren't even true? — Salman Rushdie

The lessons one learns at school are not always the ones the school thinks it's teaching. — Salman Rushdie

I'm no friend of Tony Blair's and I consider the Middle East policies of the United States and the UK fatal. — Salman Rushdie

It was a rare thing to be granted one's heart's desire. — Salman Rushdie

Memory is a way of telling you what's important to you. — Salman Rushdie

Hell is other people's fantasies ... — Salman Rushdie

Killing people because you don't like their ideas - it's a bad thing. — Salman Rushdie

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

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

If I ever have a child.. Insh'allah I will ... I wish it's a girl. I want a girl child. — Salman Khan

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Even when things are at their worst, there's a little voice in your head saying, 'Good story!' — Salman Rushdie

Methwold's hair, parted in the middle has a lot to do with my beginnings. It was one of those hairlines along which history and sexuality moved. — Salman Rushdie

You don't that often see writers being sought out when there are matters of great moment to discuss. And I think that's a loss. — Salman Rushdie

Realism can break a writer's heart. — Salman Rushdie

Sometimes great, banned works defy the censor's description and impose themselves on the world - 'Ulysses,' 'Lolita,' the 'Arabian Nights.' — Salman Rushdie

It's true that the human body is more vulnerable than the products of the human mind. — Salman Rushdie

Fundamentalism isn't about religion, it's about power. — Salman Rushdie

BEFORE CRITICIZING A WOMAN'S BODY, MAKE SURE THAT YOU ARE NO LESS THAN SALMAN KHAN, HRITHIK ROSHAN OR BRAD PITT. — Upasana Banerjee

OK, publishing a book and releasing a movie is all very well, but Tottenham beating Man. U. 3-2 ... priceless. — Salman Rushdie

Allah's plan is better than your dreams. — Salman Al-Ouda

England in a way is lucky. It's an island, so the frontiers are given by the sea. — Salman Rushdie

The human race is a life sentence ... it's a rough confinement, and sometimes we all need to break out of jail. — Salman Rushdie

One of the things I've thought about 'Midnight's Children' is that it is a novel which puts a Muslim family at the centre of the Indian experience. — Salman Rushdie

It was always women who did the choosing, and men's place was to be grateful if they were lucky enough to be the chosen ones. Joseph Anton — Salman Rushdie

Both France and Britain are supportive of India's bid for a broad-based agreement on trade and investment with the European Union. — Salman Khurshid

A book is not completed till it's read. — Salman Rushdie

Our lives, our stories, flowed into one another's, were no longer our own, individual, discrete. — Salman Rushdie

The Christian Coalition is still about Christianity, even if it's an idea of Christianity that many Christians might not go along with. — Salman Rushdie

Sometimes it's just over and you can't make it all right. Justification by works: an overrated idea. — Salman Rushdie

There are actors who can pull of a writer's lines; I am not competent enough to do that. — Salman Khan

There is no magic on earth strong enough to wipe out the legacies of one's parents. — Salman Rushdie

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