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Salman Rushdie Quotes

Salman Rushdie quotes

Indian Novelist, Writer June 19, 1947

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Salman Rushdie quote: "Why, alone of all the more-than-five-hundred-million, should I..."
Why, alone of all the more-than-five-hundred-million, should I have to bear the burden of history? Salman Rushdie
Salman Rushdie quote: "Question: What is the opposite of faith? Not disbelief. Too..."
Question: What is the opposite of faith? Not disbelief. Too final, certain, closed. Itself is a kind of belief. Doubt. Salman Rushdie
Exile is a dream of a glorious return. Exile is a vision of revolution: Elba, not St Helena. It is an endless paradox: looking forward by always looking back. The exile is a ball hurled high into the air. Salman Rushdie
Salman Rushdie quote: "The inevitable triumph of illusion over reality that was the..."
The inevitable triumph of illusion over reality that was the single most obvious truth about the history of the human race. Salman Rushdie
What happens when you win? When your enemies are at your mercy: how will you act then? Compromise is the temptation of the weak; this is the test for the strong. Salman Rushdie
Salman Rushdie quote: "From the beginning men used God to justify the unjustifiable."
From the beginning men used God to justify the unjustifiable. Salman Rushdie
Salman Rushdie quote: "OK, publishing a book and releasing a movie is all very well,..."
OK, publishing a book and releasing a movie is all very well, but Tottenham beating Man. U. 3-2... priceless. Salman Rushdie
I have been only the humblest jugglers-with-facts; and that, in a country where the truth is what it is instructed to be, reality quite literally ceases to exist, so that everything becomes possible except what we are told is the case; and maybe this was the difference between my Indian childhood and Pakistani adolescence--that in the first I was beset by an infinity of alternative realities, while in the second I was adrift, disoriented, amid an equally infinite number of falsenesses,... Salman Rushdie
Unless, of course, there's no such thing as chance;...in which case, we should either-optimistically-get up and cheer, because if everything is planned in advance, then we all have a meaning and are spared the terror of knowing ourselves to be random, without a why; or else, of course, we might-as pessimists-give up right here and now, understanding the futility of thought decision action, since nothing we think makes any difference anyway, things will be as they will. Where, then, is... Salman Rushdie
Salman Rushdie quote: "A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it,..."
A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it; or offer your own version in return. Salman Rushdie
Enough of invisibility, silence, timidity, defensiveness, guilt! An invisible, silenced man was an empty space into which others could pour their prejudices, their agendas, their wrath. The fight against fanaticism needed visible faces, audible voices. He would be quiet no longer. He would try to become a loud and visible man. Salman Rushdie
Salman Rushdie quote: "When we stop believing in the gods we can start believing in..."
When we stop believing in the gods we can start believing in their stories. Salman Rushdie
human beings do not perceive things whole; we are not gods but wounded creatures, cracked lenses, capable only of fractured perceptions Salman Rushdie
He would dream of discovering a magic optometrist from whom he would purchase a pair of green-tinged spectacles which would correct his regrettable myopia, and after that he would be able to see through the dense, blinding air to the fabulous world beneath. Salman Rushdie
And my grandfather... was forever knocked into that middle place, unable to worship a God in whose existence he could not wholly disbelieve. Permanent alteration: a hole. Salman Rushdie

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