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Salman Rushdie Quotes - Page 9

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When thought becomes excessively painful, action is the finest remedy.

When thought becomes excessively painful, action is the finest remedy.

Pain, Thinking, Action

Salman Rushdie (2010). “Midnight's Children”, p.497, Random House

Doubt, it seems to me, is the central condition of a human being in the twentieth century.

Doubt, Century, Humans

In television, the 60-minute series, 'The Wire' and 'Mad Men' and so on, the writer is the primary creative artist.

Artist, Men, Mad

"Salman Rushdie says TV dramas comparable to novels". www.theguardian.com. June 12, 2011.

Is birth always a fall?

Fall, Birth

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

A man who catches History's eye is thereafter bound to a mistress from whom he will never escape.

Eye, Men, Mistress

Salman Rushdie (2011). “Shame”, p.124, Random House

I became a writer because I got addicted to story. The first storyteller in my life was my father.

Father, Stories, Firsts

There is no alternative to the peaceful coexistence of cultures.

Peaceful, Culture, Alternatives

"'Terror Is Glamour'". Interview with Erich Follath, www.spiegel.de. August 28, 2006.

Be sure that you go to the author to get at his meaning, not to find yours.

Book, Reading

Look at history. It's not the account of a species at peace.

Looks, Accounts, Species

Hell is other people's fantasies.

People, Fantasy, Hell

"Midnight's Children". Book by Salman Rushdie, 1980.

As human knowledge has grown, it has also become plain that every religious story ever told about how we got here is quite simply wrong. This, finally, is what all religions have in common. They didn't get it right.

Religious, Stories, Common

Salman Rushdie (2008). “Step Across This Line”, p.86, Random House

Shame is like everything else; live with it for long enough and it becomes part of the furniture.

Long, Furniture, Shame

"Tell your crush how you feel - it may be relevant information" by Nell Frizzell, www.theguardian.com. July 10, 2015.

No story comes from nowhere; new stories are born from old.

Stories, Born

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

I want more than what I want. (Vina Apsara)

Want

When you know what you're against you have taken the first step to discovering what you're for.

Taken, Firsts, Steps

Salman Rushdie (2000). “The Ground Beneath Her Feet: A Novel”, p.223, Macmillan

If you want to tell the untold stories, if you want to give voice to the voiceless, you've got to find a language. Which goes for film as well as prose, for documentary as well as autobiography. Use the wrong language, and you're dumb and blind.

Voice, Giving, Dumb

I think it's a very important function of art to challenge accepted reality, especially when that reality is created by powerful interest groups.

Art, Powerful, Reality

Source: articles.chicagotribune.com

I know who I am, I know what I'm for, and I know what I'm willing to fight for.

Fighting, Who I Am, Willing

Source: www.teachingbooks.net

Prophet Mohammed would have no objection to The Satanic Verses.

Motivational, Satanic, Prophet

The glamour of being forbidden must not be underestimated.

Glamour, Forbidden, Underestimated

"Imran is Dim, says Salman Rushdie at the India Today Conclave". "India Today Conclave" with Aroon Purie, indiatoday.intoday.in. March 17, 2012.

A relationship with an imaginary woman is preferable to a relationship with a real one.

Real, Imaginary, Real Ones

Children are the vessels into which adults pour their poison.

Children, Adults, Poison

"Midnight's Children". Book by Salman Rushdie, September 7, 2010.

I'm definitely post-something.

Posts

Question: What is the opposite of faith? Not disbelief. Too final, certain, closed. Itself is a kind of belief. Doubt.

Opposites, Doubt, Finals

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

In a novel, if you're any good, you don't just have good people or bad people. You have complicated people. You have real people.

Real, People, Complicated

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