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Salman Rushdie Quotes

Salman Rushdie quotes about life

Indian Novelist, Writer June 19, 1947

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Salman Rushdie quote: "He returned to Cambridge feeling, at the ripe old age of..."
He returned to Cambridge feeling, at the ripe old age of twenty, that life was passing him by. Salman Rushdie
Human life was rarely shapely, only intermittently meaningful, its clumsiness the inevitable consequence of the victory of content over form, of what and when over how and why. Salman Rushdie
People don't like being around despair. Our tolerance for the truly hopeless, for those who are irredeemably broken by life is strictly limited. The sob stories we like are the ones that end before we're bored. Salman Rushdie
The accidents of my life have given me the ability to make stories in which different parts of the world are brought together, sometimes harmoniously, sometimes in conflict, and sometimes both - usually both. The difficulty in these stories is that if you write about everywhere you can end up writing about nowhere. Salman Rushdie
Salman Rushdie quote: "To understand just one life you have to swallow the world ......"
To understand just one life you have to swallow the world ... do you wonder, then, that I was a heavy child? Salman Rushdie
After they stopped torturing him they locked him in the jail cell again and pretended they would forget him... Then, eventually, and unexpectedly, release. Into ignominy, oblivion, married life. Salman Rushdie
Salman Rushdie quote: "I have been so-many too-many persons; life, unlike syntax,..."
I have been so-many too-many persons; life, unlike syntax, allows one more than three. Salman Rushdie
Salman Rushdie quote: "Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free..."
Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself. Salman Rushdie
Salman Rushdie quote: "To understand just one life, you have to swallow the world."
To understand just one life, you have to swallow the world. Salman Rushdie
I didn't want to become some embittered old hack getting his revenge for the rest of my life. And I didn't want to become some scared creature cowering in a corner. I remember telling myself not to carry the hatred around, although I know where it is. I have it in a trunk in storage. Salman Rushdie
Salman Rushdie quote: "The human race is a life sentence...it's a rough confinement,..."
The human race is a life sentence...it's a rough confinement, and sometimes we all need to break out of jail. Salman Rushdie
Salman Rushdie quote: "Life's bruises demythologise us all. The earth gapes."
Life's bruises demythologise us all. The earth gapes. Salman Rushdie
I was 21 in 1968, so I'm as much a child of the '60s as is possible to be. In those years the subject of religion had really almost disappeared; the idea that religion was going to be a major force in the life of our societies, in the West anyway, would have seemed absurd in 1968. Salman Rushdie
Salman Rushdie quote: "You never know the answers to the questions of life until you..."
You never know the answers to the questions of life until you are asked. Salman Rushdie
Salman Rushdie quote: "Life is lived forward but is judged in reverse."
Life is lived forward but is judged in reverse. Salman Rushdie

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