Salman Rushdie Quotes about Culture

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The history of a culture can be determined by its untranslatable words.

The history of a culture can be determined by its untranslatable words.

Salman Rushdie

Culture, Determined

There is no alternative to the peaceful coexistence of cultures.

Salman Rushdie

Peaceful, Culture, Alternatives

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

I reluctantly concluded that there was no way for me to help bring into being the Muslim culture I'd dreamed of, the progressive, irreverent, skeptical, argumentative, playful and unafraid culture which is what I've always understood as freedom.... Actually Existing Islam ... which makes literalism a weapon and redescription a crime, will never let the likes of me in.

Salman Rushdie

Islam, Culture, Weapons

"Excerpts From Rushdie's Address: 1,000 Days 'Trapped Inside a Metaphor'". Address at Columbia University, www.nytimes.com. December 12, 1991.

I remember when I was young, many cities in the Muslim world were cosmopolitan cities with a lot of culture.

Salman Rushdie

Cities, Culture, World

What I've always tried to find in my books are points at which the private lives of the characters, and also my own, intersect with the public life of the culture.

Salman Rushdie

Book, Character, Culture

The Koran was revealed at a time of great change in the Arab world, the seventh-century shift from a matriarchal nomadic culture to an urban patriarchal system.

Salman Rushdie

Culture, World, Urban