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Salman Rushdie Quotes - Page 19

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I am clearly vulnerable to these more passionate and volatile unstable relationships. I am trying to not be so vulnerable.

I am clearly vulnerable to these more passionate and volatile unstable relationships. I am trying to not be so vulnerable.

Trying, Passionate, Vulnerable

History could claw upward as well as down. The powerful could be deafened by the cries of the poor.

Powerful, Cry, Poor

A figure of speech is a shifty thing; it can be twisted or it can be straight.

Speech, Twisted, Figures

Salman Rushdie (1990). “Haroun and the Sea of Stories”, Penguin Books

Chekhov is this poet of melancholy and isolation and of wishing you were somewhere else than where you are.

Somewhere Else, Wish, Isolation

A thing that happens to migrants is that they lose many of the traditional things which root identity, which root the self.

Self, Roots, Identity

"Hay Festival 2012: Salman Rushdie on security and The Satanic Verses" by Anita Singh, www.telegraph.co.uk. June 3, 2012.

Acting was always my unscratched itch, when I was in college and even afterwards.

College, Acting

Bin Laden was born filthy rich and died in a rich man's house, which he had painstakingly built to the highest specifications.

Men, House, Rich

It may be argued that the past is a country from which we have all emigrated, that its loss is part of our common humanity.

Country, Loss, Past

Salman Rushdie (2017). “Home: Vintage Minis”, p.27, Random House

I'm a big-city boy. What I like is big cities. It's not just what I like. It's what I write about.

Writing, Boys, Cities

"Manhattan transfer". Interview with D.T. Max, www.theguardian.com. September 23, 2000.

Why obliterate the exceptional merely in order to make the outstanding look finer than it was?

Order, Looks, Outstanding

Dissensions between Muslim nations run at least as deep, if not deeper, than those nations' resentment of the West.

Running, West, Resentment

"Islam's battle with the Islamists" by Salman Rushdie, www.theguardian.com. November 8, 2001.

...in words and pickles, I have immortalized my memories, although distortions are inevitable in both methods. We must live, I'm afraid, with the shadows of imperfections.

Memories, Imperfection, Shadow

Salman Rushdie (2010). “Midnight's Children”, p.642, Random House

When I'm writing books, something weird happens; and the result is the books contain a large amount of what you could call 'supernaturalism.' As a writer, I find I need that to explain the world I'm writing about.

Book, Writing, Needs

I didn't want to become some embittered old hack getting his revenge for the rest of my life. And I didn't want to become some scared creature cowering in a corner. I remember telling myself not to carry the hatred around, although I know where it is. I have it in a trunk in storage.

Revenge, Hatred, Want

"'I have the hatred in a trunk in storage'". Interview with Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. August 29, 2005.

‎No people whose word for 'yesterday' is the same as their word for 'tomorrow' can be said to have a firm grip on the time.

Yesterday, People, Tomorrow

"Midnight's Children". Book by Salman Rushdie, Chapter 8, "Tick, Tock", 1980.

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.

Order, People, Weapons

How to forgive the world for its beauty, which merely disguises its ugliness; for its gentleness, which merely cloaks its cruelty; for its illusion of continuity, seamlessly, as the night follows the day, so to speak- whereas in reality life is a series of brutal raptures, falling upon your defenseless hands, like the blows of a woodman's axe?

Life, Fall, Blow

We are described into corners, and then we must describe ourselves out of corners.

Corners

Everybody loves 'The Wire,' and I think it's okay, but in the end it's just a police series.

Thinking, Police, Wire

"Salman Rushdie Calls Game of Thrones ‘Well-Produced Trash’" by Kyle Buchanan, www.vulture.com. October 17, 2011.

England in a way is lucky. It's an island, so the frontiers are given by the sea.

Sea, Islands, Way

Most of what matters in your life takes place in your absence.

Reality, What Matters, Absence

1981 Midnight's Children,'Alpha and Omega', bk.2.

He had picked up languages the way most sailors pick up diseases; languages were his gonorrhoea, his syphilis, his scurvy, his ague, his plague.

Disease, Syphilis, Way

If you look at Indian movies, every time they wanted an exotic locale, they would have a dance number in Kashmir. Kashmir was India's fairyland. Indians went there because in a hot country you go to a cold place. People would be entranced by the sight of snow.

Country, Numbers, Sight

British society has never been cleansed of the filth of imperialism.

Filth, Imperialism, British

"How to Understand Kashmir and Survive the Jihadis: An Interview with Sir Salman Rushdie". Interview with Johann Hari, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 8, 2009.

If my child had prejudice in his head, I'd be ashamed. I would see it as my failure as a parent.

Children, Parent, Prejudice

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