The history of a culture can be determined by its untranslatable words. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“Love is spring after winter. It comes to heal life’s wounds, inflicted by the unloving cold.” — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
If somebody's trying to shut you up, sing louder, and if possible, better. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
I'm not saying I am never going to fall in love again, but there is no need to marry. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
If love is a yearning to be like (even to become) the beloved, then hatred, it must be said, can be engendered… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“It is all for love. Which is a wonderful and dashing matter. But which can also be a very foolish thing.” — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
One either loves, or waits for love, or banishes love for good. That is the full range of possible choices. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
A man who invents himself needs someone to believe in him... Not only the need to be believed in, but the need… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“The world is full of love stories, and all lovers are in a sense the avatars of their predecessors.” — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Like everybody else, I've had relationships in which I was passionately in love but was completely miserable all the time and didn't… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Music, love, death. Certainly a triangle of sorts; maybe even an eternal one. "The only people who can see the whole picture,"… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
One of the things I've learnt is not to depend on there being a woman in your life to make it work.… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“He knew that his father had finally run hard enough and long enough to wear down the frontiers between the worlds, he… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
I grew up falling in love with kind of story, amazing, wonder tale of the East, which if you're a child growing… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“And blessed be the first sweet suffering that I felt in being conjoined with love and the bow and the shafts with… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Music, love, death. Certainly a triangle of sorts; maybe even an eternal one. "The only people who can see the whole picture,"… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“She'd never shaken off the feeling of being damaged by her ignorance of Love, of what it might be like to be… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“I allowed myself the supernatural, the transcendent, because, I told myself, our love of metaphor is pre-religious, born of our need to… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“Then she found him. - And maybe he'd invented her, too, a little bit, invented someone worth rushing out of one's old… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“When a reader falls in love with a book, it leaves its essence inside him, like radioactive fallout in an arable field,… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Abraham Zogoiby covered his face that night in August 1939 because he had been assailed by fear, [...] a sudden apprehension that… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“It had been more than a year since the Joker’s conquest of America and we were all still in shock and going… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“Children get food shelter pocket money longholidays and love, all of it apparently free gratis, and most of the little fools think… — salman rushdie Copy Share Image
“Once upon a time there was a mother who, in order to become a mother, had agreed to change her name; who… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“Get thee behind me, Satan. Seek not come between a lover and his love.” — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
She saw him fracture into rainbow colors through the prism of her love. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“The actor's life offers, on a daily basis, the simulacrum of love; a mask can be satisfied, or at least consoled, by… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“Love, my child, is a thing that every mother learns; it is not born with a baby, but made; and for eleven… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“Between the self and the other, between the visionary and the psychopath, between the lover and his love, between the overworld and… — 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
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