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Salman Rushdie Quotes - Page 10

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Go for broke. Always try and do too much. Dispense with safety nets. Take a deep breath before you begin.

Go for broke. Always try and do too much. Dispense with safety nets. Take a deep breath before you begin.

Safety, Effort, Trying

Salman Rushdie, Michael Reder (2000). “Conversations with Salman Rushdie”, p.11, Univ. Press of Mississippi

After a long, hopeless war, people will settle for peace, at almost any price.

War, Long, People

I am on Facebook, but mainly as a way to spy on my children. I find out more about them from their Facebook pages than from what they tell me.

Children, Spy, Pages

I think that England made a very big, historical mistake to allow itself to become the kind of terrorist capital of the world.

Mistake, Thinking, Historical

"'I have the hatred in a trunk in storage'". Interview with Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. August 24, 2005.

This may be the curse of human race . Not that we are different from one anther , but we are so alike .

Race, Different, May

I will come back to India - so deal with it.

India, Deals

Sometimes legends make reality, and become more useful than the facts.

Reality, Legends, Facts

I do have a lot of time for people in my life, and friendship is a very important subject for me. I think I'm unusual among the writers I know in that respect.

Thinking, People, Important

A photograph is a moral decision taken in one eighth of a second.

Photography, Taken, Decision

Salman Rushdie (2000). “The Ground Beneath Her Feet: A Novel”, p.13, Macmillan

What distinguishes a great artist from a weak one is first their sensibility and tenderness; second, their imagination, and third, their industry.

Art, Imagination, Firsts

Vertigo is the conflict between the fear of falling and the desire to fall.

Fall, Desire, Conflict

I've never rejected the world I came from. To be rejected by it is horrible.

World, Rejected, Horrible

Our lives disconnect and reconnect, we move on, and later we may again touch one another, again bounce away. This is the felt shape of a human life, neither simply linear nor wholly disjunctive nor endlessly bifurcating, but rather this bouncey-castle sequence of bumpings-into and tumblings-apart.

Moving, Castles, Tumbling

Salman Rushdie (2000). “The Ground Beneath Her Feet: A Novel”, p.543, Macmillan

When you write, you write out of your best self. Everything else drops away.

Writing, Self, Best Self

"'I have the hatred in a trunk in storage'". Interview with Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. August 24, 2005.

A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it; or offer your own version in return.

Book, Reading, Writing

Salman Rushdie (1990). “In good faith”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

What had been (at the beginning) no bigger than a full stop had expanded into a comma, a word, a sentence, a paragraph, a chapter; now it was bursting into more complex developments, becoming, one might say, a book - perhaps an encylopaedia - even a whole language.

Book, Becoming One, Development

Salman Rushdie (2010). “Midnight's Children”, p.133, Random House

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.

Dream, Air, Vision

Salman Rushdie (1989). “The Satanic Verses”, New York, N.Y. : Viking

In the real world, immeasurable hurt is caused by terrorists based in Pakistan who attack countries like India.

Country, Hurt, Real

When you throw everything up in the air anything becomes possible.

Air, Up In The Air

Salman Rushdie (1989). “The Satanic Verses”, New York, N.Y. : Viking

Without water we are nothing", the traveler thought. "Even an emperor, denied water, would swiftly turn to dust. Water is the real monarch and we are all its slaves.

Real, Dust, Water

Laila Lalami has fashioned an absorbing story of one of the first encounters between Spanish conquistadores and Native Americans, a frightening, brutal, and much-falsified history that here, in her brilliantly imagined fiction, is rewritten to give us something that feels very like the truth.

Native American, Giving, Encounters

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.

Heart, Earthquakes, Scratches

Salman Rushdie (2000). “The Ground Beneath Her Feet: A Novel”, p.13, Macmillan

Not all possibilities are open to us. The world is finite; our hopes spill over its rim.

World, Possibility, Finite

Salman Rushdie (1989). “The Satanic Verses”, New York, N.Y. : Viking

Make as much racket as you like people. Noise is life and an excess of noise is a sign that life is good. There will be time for us all to be quiet when we are safely dead.

Life Is Good, People, Excess

Salman Rushdie (2008). “The Enchantress of Florence”, p.30, Random House

perhaps, if one wishes to remain an individual in the midst of the teeming multitudes, one must make oneself grotesque.

Wish, Conformity, Individualism

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