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Salman Rushdie quotes

Indian Novelist, Writer June 19, 1947

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Salman Rushdie quote: "Vertigo is the conflict between the fear of falling and the..."
Vertigo is the conflict between the fear of falling and the desire to fall. Salman Rushdie
Salman Rushdie quote: "Now I know what a ghost is. Unfinished business, that's what."
Now I know what a ghost is. Unfinished business, that's what. Salman Rushdie
Literature is the one place in any society where, within the secrecy of our own heads, we can hear voices talking about everything in every possible way. The reason for ensuring that that privileged arena is preserved is not that writers want the absolute freedom to say and do whatever they please. It is that we, all of us, readers and writers and citizens and generals and goodmen, need that little, unimportant-looking room. We do not need to call it sacred, but we do need to remember that it... Salman Rushdie
Salman Rushdie quote: "Language is courage: the ability to conceive a thought, to..."
Language is courage: the ability to conceive a thought, to speak it, and by doing so to make it true. Salman Rushdie
Once you have been in an earthquake you know, even if you survive without a scratch, that like a stroke in the heart, it remains in the earth's breast, horribly potential, always promising to return, to hit you again, with an even more devastating force. Salman Rushdie
Salman Rushdie quote: "Can one drown in one's element... If fish can drown in water,..."
Can one drown in one's element... If fish can drown in water, can human beings suffocate in air? Salman Rushdie
Salman Rushdie quote: "What one writer can make in the solitude of one room is..."
What one writer can make in the solitude of one room is something no power can easily destroy. Salman Rushdie
Having been borne across the world, we are translated men. It is normally supposed that something always gets lost in translation; I cling, obstinately, to the notion that something can also be gained. Salman Rushdie
I know that when people pull apart, they usually employ misunderstanding as a weapon, deliberately getting hold of the stick's wrong end, impaling themselves on its point in order to prove the perfidy of the other. Salman Rushdie
Salman Rushdie quote: "faith without doubt is addiction"
faith without doubt is addiction Salman Rushdie
Salman Rushdie quote: "After a winter's gestation in its eggshell of ice, the valley..."
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
Reality is a question of perspective; the further you get from the past, the more concrete and plausible it seems - but as you approach the present, it inevitably seems more and more incredible. Salman Rushdie
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. Salman Rushdie
Salman Rushdie quote: "Sometimes, people trying to commit suicide manage it in a..."
Sometimes, people trying to commit suicide manage it in a manner that leaves them breathless with astonishment. Salman Rushdie
Salman Rushdie quote: "Confusion to our enemies!"
Confusion to our enemies! Salman Rushdie

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