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Salman Rushdie Quotes

Salman Rushdie quotes

Indian Novelist, Writer June 19, 1947

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Salman Rushdie quote: "The adult chops down his childhood to help his grown-up self...."
The adult chops down his childhood to help his grown-up self. The unsentimentality is appealing, don't you think? Salman Rushdie
My parents gave me the gift of irreligion, of growing up without bothering to ask people what gods they held dear, assuming that in fact, like my parents, they weren't interested in gods, and that this uninterest was 'normal.' You may argue that the gift was a poisoned chalice, but even if so, that's a cup from which I'd happily drink again. Salman Rushdie
Salman Rushdie quote: "What kind of Christmas present would Jesus ask Santa for?"
What kind of Christmas present would Jesus ask Santa for? Salman Rushdie
Nobody has the right to not be offended. That right doesn't exist in any declaration I have ever read. If you are offended it is your problem, and frankly lots of things offend lots of people.I can walk into a bookshop and point out a number of books that I find very unattractive in what they say. But it doesn't occur to me to burn the bookshop down. If you don't like a book, read another book. If you start reading a book and you decide you don't like it, nobody is telling you to finish it.... Salman Rushdie
Salman Rushdie quote: "Sometimes we feel we straddle two cultures; at other times,..."
Sometimes we feel we straddle two cultures; at other times, that we fall between two stools. Salman Rushdie
Such is the miraculous nature of the future of exiles: what is first uttered in the impotence of an overheated apartment becomes the fate of nations. Salman Rushdie
At sixteen, you still think you can escape from your father. You aren't listening to his voice speaking through your mouth, you don't see how your gestures already mirror his; you don't see him in the way you hold your body, the way you sign your name. You don't hear his whisper in your blood. Salman Rushdie
Salman Rushdie quote: "If you actually want to change your world, there is a better..."
If you actually want to change your world, there is a better way of doing it than blowing yourself up. Salman Rushdie
A people that has remained convinced of its greatness and invulnerability, that has chosen to believe such a myth in the face of all the evidence, is a people in the grip of a kind of sleep, or madness. Salman Rushdie
The idea of the sacred is quite simply one of the most conservative notions in any culture, because it seeks to turn other ideas - uncertainty, progress, change - into crimes. Salman Rushdie
Religion was the glue of Pakistan, holding the halves together; just as consciousness, the awareness of oneself as a homogenous entity in time, a blend of past and present, is the glue of personality, holding together our then and our now. Salman Rushdie
Salman Rushdie quote: "We were language's magpies by nature, stealing whatever..."
We were language's magpies by nature, stealing whatever sounded bright and shiny. Salman Rushdie
Salman Rushdie quote: "Rock and roll music - the music of freedom frightens people..."
Rock and roll music - the music of freedom frightens people and unleashes all manner of conservative defense mechanisms. Salman Rushdie
Because if the whole universe could just explode out of Nothing and then just Be, don't you see that the opposite could also be true? That it is possible to implode and Un-Be as well as to explode and Be? That it's possible to implode and Un-Be as well as to explode and Be? That all human beings, Napoleon Bonaparte, for example, or the emperor Akbar, or Angelina Jolie or your father, could simply return to Nothing once they're...done? In a sort of Little, by which I mean personal, Un-Bang? Salman Rushdie
It was always women who did the choosing, and men's place was to be grateful if they were lucky enough to be the chosen ones. Joseph Anton Salman Rushdie

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