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Salman Rushdie Quotes

Salman Rushdie quotes

Indian Novelist, Writer June 19, 1947

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In spite of all evidence that life is discontinuous, a valley of rifts, and that random chance plays a great part in our fates, we go on believing in the continuity of things, in causation and meaning. But we live on a broken mirror, and fresh cracks appear in its surface every day. Salman Rushdie
A book is a product of a pact with the Devil that inverts the Faustian contract, he'd told Allie. Dr Faustus sacrificed eternity in return for two dozen years of power; the writer agrees to the ruination of his life, and gains (but only if he's lucky) maybe not eternity, but posterity, at least. Either way (this was Jumpy's point) it's the Devil who wins. Salman Rushdie
It's so disappointing, to put it mildly, that people know so much about my life. Because it means that they're always trying to look at my books in terms of my life. Salman Rushdie
Keep away from her," said Ameer Merchant, but once the inexorable dynamic of the mythic has been set in motion, you might as well try and keep bees from honey, crooks from money, politicians from babies, philosophers from maybes. Vina had her hooks in me, and the consequence was the story of my life. Salman Rushdie
Salman Rushdie quote: "Life has vanquished death and even the furniture celebrates."
Life has vanquished death and even the furniture celebrates. Salman Rushdie
Salman Rushdie quote: "We all owe death a life."
We all owe death a life. Salman Rushdie
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

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