You never know the answers to the questions of life until you are asked. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“Anything you want to be, you can be: You can be just what-all you want.” — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Writers shouldn't have lives that are interesting. It gets in the way of your work. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“the desperation of a mind unable to discipline itself and descending, therefore, into the carnivalesque. A mind imprisoned by itself, serving a… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“We, the living, must find what space we can alongside them; the giant dead whom we cannot tie down, though we grasp… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“Maybe unhappiness is the continuum through which a human life moves, and joy just a series of blips, of islands in the… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
It's so disappointing, to put it mildly, that people know so much about my life. Because it means that they're always trying… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
To understand just one life you have to swallow the world ... do you wonder, then, that I was a heavy child? — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
I became a writer because I got addicted to story. The first storyteller in my life was my father. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
The world is about the way in which our dreams intersect with our real life. Endlessly, the world of the imagination changes… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
When you start writing about the stuff that is the central experience of your own life, you can talk about whatever you… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
People don't like being around despair. Our tolerance for the truly hopeless, for those who are irredeemably broken by life is strictly… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“Morality came before religion, and religion was our ancestors' way of responding to that built-in need. And if that was so, then… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
I am the sum total of everything that went before me, of all I have been seen done, of everything done-to-me. I… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“We live in a world of disappointment. You begin with high hopes and the beautiful innocence of childhood but you discover that… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“The future, even when it was only a question-shrouded glimmer, would not be eclipsed by the past; even when death moved towards… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“and here is Nussie's husband, Ismail the lawyer, who has learned an important lesson from his son's forcep-birth: 'Nothing comes out right… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
How to forgive the world for its beauty, which merely disguises its ugliness; for its gentleness, which merely cloaks its cruelty; for… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
If you live in free countries, you don't have to spend all your life arguing about freedom because it is all around… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“I'll tell you a secret about fear: it's an absolutist. With fear, it's all or nothing. Either, like any bullying tyrant, it… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
...The lesson [comic books] taught children- or this child, at any rate- was perhaps the unintentionally radical truth that exceptionality was the… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“Things aren't like this," he kept repeating. "It shouldn't be this way." As if he had access to some other plane of… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“When you're whirling free of the mother ship, when you cut your ropes, slip your chain, step off the map, go absent… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“To grow up steeped in these tellings was to learn two unforgettable lessons: first, that stories were not true (there were no… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“Live on, survive, for the earth gives forth wonders. It may swallow your heart, but the wonders keep on coming. You stand… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“Please," Professor Solanka asked. "Just tell me." "That's the worst part," Dubdub said. "There's nothing to tell. No direct or proximate cause.… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“Symbolic value of the pickling process: all the six hundred million eggs which gave birth to the population of India could fit… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“If power was a a cry, then human lives were lived in the echo of the cries of others.” — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“I have been so-many too-many persons; life, unlike syntax, allows one more than three.” — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“A race that rejected the idea of personal sacrifice would surely be erased from time's records before long.” — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“it feels as if half your life is a sort of struggle toward the sunlight. Then you get five minutes in the… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Free societies...are societies in motion, and with motion comes tension, dissent, friction. Free people strike sparks, and those sparks are the best… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“He returned to Cambridge feeling, at the ripe old age of twenty, that life was passing him by.” — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
If my child had prejudice in his head, I'd be ashamed. I would see it as my failure as a parent. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share
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… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share
I want to write novels. I want to write stories. I want to do the stuff that I became a writer to do. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share
If you want to be a serious writer, then you have to write what there is to write about. If you're going to pull… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share
“Después de exigir mi marcha, ya no posees jurisdicción en lo concerniente a mi salud.” — Salman Rushdie Copy Share
If there is a choice between absolute safety and freedom, then freedom must always prevail. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share
I'm not a prophet, but I always thought it was natural for dictatorships to fall. I remember in 1989, two months before the fall… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share
I'd wanted to create a storm so that I could become more famous and richer. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share
Who what am I? My answer: I am the sum total of everything that went before me, of all I have been seen done,… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share
“information, in a stream-of-consciousness soliloquy that revealed the extent to which he had internalised the adversarial fragmentation of American culture and made it a… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share
A little bit of one story joins onto an idea from another, and hey presto, . . . not old tales but new ones.… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share
The First Amendment defends all forms of speech including hate speech, which is why groups like Ku Klux Klan are allowed to utter their… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share
![“...The lesson [comic books] taught children- or this child, at any rate- was perhaps the unintentionally radical truth that exceptionality was the greatest and most heroic of values; that those who were unlike the crowd were to be treasured the most lovingly; and that this exceptionality was a…” quote by Salman Rushdie](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/6ed/salman-rushdie-153_book_the-lesson-comic-books-taught-children-o_2844430.jpg)
