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Salman Rushdie Quotes

Salman Rushdie quotes

Indian Novelist, Writer June 19, 1947

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Nothing comes from nothing, Thieflet; no story comes from nowhere; new stories are born from old--it is the new combinations that make them new. Salman Rushdie
Salman Rushdie quote: "I have been a swallower of lives; and to know me, just the one..."
I have been a swallower of lives; and to know me, just the one of me, you'll have to swallow the lot as well. Salman Rushdie
Salman Rushdie quote: "What you were is forever who you are."
What you were is forever who you are. Salman Rushdie
Salman Rushdie quote: "If Woody Allen were a Muslim, he'd be dead by now."
If Woody Allen were a Muslim, he'd be dead by now. Salman Rushdie
Salman Rushdie quote: "Language upon a silvered tongue affords enchantment enough."
Language upon a silvered tongue affords enchantment enough. Salman Rushdie
I am the sum total of everything that went before me, of all I have been seen done, of everything done-to-me. I am everyone everything whose being-in-the-world affected was affected by mine. I am anything that happens after I'm gone which would not have happened if I had not come. Salman Rushdie
Salman Rushdie quote: "If I were asked for a one-sentence sound bite on religion, I..."
If I were asked for a one-sentence sound bite on religion, I would say I was against it. Salman Rushdie
Salman Rushdie quote: "Any story worth its salt can handle a little shaking up."
Any story worth its salt can handle a little shaking up. Salman Rushdie
I, too, have ropes around my neck. I have them to this day, pulling me this way and that, East and West, the nooses tightening, commanding, choose, choose. I buck, I snort, I whinny, I rear, Ikick. Ropes, I do not choose between you. Lassoes, lariats, I choose neither of you, and both. Doyou hear? I refuse to choose. Salman Rushdie
Salman Rushdie quote: "Nobody can judge an internal injury by the size of the..."
Nobody can judge an internal injury by the size of the superficial wound. Salman Rushdie
Salman Rushdie quote: "I want more than what I want. (Vina Apsara)"
I want more than what I want. (Vina Apsara) Salman Rushdie
Salman Rushdie quote: "Nobody can judge an internal injury," he had said, "by the..."
Nobody can judge an internal injury," he had said, "by the size of the superficial wound, of the hole. Salman Rushdie
Salman Rushdie quote: "Our lives, our stories, flowed into one another's, were no..."
Our lives, our stories, flowed into one another's, were no longer our own, individual, discrete. Salman Rushdie
Salman Rushdie quote: "optimism is a disease"
optimism is a disease Salman Rushdie
Salman Rushdie quote: "O the shame of it, the humiliating shame of being condescended..."
O the shame of it, the humiliating shame of being condescended to by dolts Salman Rushdie

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