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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.

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.

Salman Rushdie
Real, Dust, Water

Can one drown in one's element... If fish can drown in water, can human beings suffocate in air?

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

Believe in your own eyes and you'll get into a lot of trouble, hot water, a mess.

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

Sometimes by a woodland stream he watched the water rush over the pebbled bed, its tiny modulations of bounce and flow. A woman's body was like that. If you watched it carefully enough you could see how it moved to the rhythm of the world, the deep rhythm, the music below the music, the truth below the truth. He believed in this hidden truth the way other men believed in God or love, believed that truth was in fact always hidden, that the apparent, the overt, was invariably a kind of lie.

Salman Rushdie
Lying, Men, Water

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