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