Salman Rushdie Quotes
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Salman Rushdie Famous Quotes & Sayings
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The adult chops down his childhood to help his grown-up self. The unsentimentality is appealing, don't you think?
Too many people had spent too long demonizing or totemizing me to listen seriously to what I had to say.
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.
If by some bizarre chance there turns out to be a god [ ... ], I'm willing to bet he's an atheist too.
I'm no friend of Tony Blair's and I consider the Middle East policies of the United States and the UK fatal.
The only way to find out why someone decides to engage in armed combat is to look at their individual personality.
And - as is perhaps the universal custom of aristocratically bred persons - they reacted to the news of their ruin by resolving to throw a party.
Being God's postman is no fun, yar.
Butbutbut: God isn't in this picture.
God knows whose postman I've been.
Butbutbut: God isn't in this picture.
God knows whose postman I've been.
The world is about the way in which our dreams intersect with our real life. Endlessly, the world of the imagination changes the world.
And by that destiny, to perform an act Whereof what's past is prologue, what to come In yours and my discharge.
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.
'The Satanic Verses' was denied the ordinary life of a novel. It became something smaller and uglier: an insult.
Sometimes writing a novel is not unlike having a baby. You'd have to ask a female novelist to compare the pain.
The Republicans were not always insane. They might've had politics I didn't agree with, but they weren't always actually certifiable.
She watched him recede into the past as he stood ... each successive moment of him passing before her eyes and being lost forever.
...the old are destroying the young by them to die in distant fields, and in response the young are destroying themselves.
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.
He remembered the old Chinese proverb, sometimes ascribed to Confucius: If you sit by the river for long enough, the body of your enemy will float by.
In autobiography, as in all literature, what actually happened is less important than what the author can manage to persuade his audience to believe
YouTube is full of pieces of trash. If you want to look on YouTube and find something that insults you, you can probably find it.
We can best understand the nature of this culture if we say that it found its truest mirror in a corpse
I must finish what I've started, even if, inevitably, what I finish turns out not to be what I began.
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.
Bread and books: food for the body and food for the soul - what could be more worthy of our respect, and even love?
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.
I dislike arranged marriages. There are some mistakes for which one should not be able to blame one's poor parents.
Too many people spouting too many words, and in the end those words will turn to bullets and stones.
Maybe unhappiness is the continuum through which a human life moves, and joy just a series of blips, of islands in the stream.
The inconspicuous nine-vehicle motorcade rolled toward Manhattan with motorcycle sirens blaring and lights flashing, attracting no attention at all.
Her thoughts, loosen by solitude, often burst these days through her unconscious lips; and often contradict one another ( ... )
Youth was often wretched, the struggle to become themselves tore the young to shreds, but sometimes, after the struggle, better days began.
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.