“Oh, alas, alas for his debauched children, flesh of his flesh, heir to all his failings and none of his strenghts!... was… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
When 'Midnight's Children' came out, people in the West tended to respond to the fantasy elements in the novel, to praise it… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
If you have children, you worry about the world you're leaving them. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
One of the things I've thought about 'Midnight's Children' is that it is a novel which puts a Muslim family at the… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
I don't think people cry reading 'Midnight's Children,' but a lot of people seem to cry watching the movie. — 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
“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
When you have children, your perspective on the parent-child relationship alters. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“Children, however magical, are not immune to their parents; and as the prejudices and world-views of adults began to take over their… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
I have been only the humblest jugglers-with-facts; and that, in a country where the truth is what it is instructed to be,… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“He was the child of a father who was not his father; but also the child of a time which damaged reality… — 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
Games sometimes require lateral thinking. They sometimes require quite skilled hand-eye coordination and so on. But they're not in any sense intelligent… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“She allowed history to leave her without trying to hold it back, the way children allow a grand parade to pass, holding… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
I was 21 in 1968, so I'm as much a child of the '60s as is possible to be. In those years… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Children like being a little scared, but they don't want to be disturbed. — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“Después de exigir mi marcha, ya no posees jurisdicción en lo concerniente a mi salud.” — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
If there is a choice between absolute safety and freedom, then freedom must always prevail. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
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 Image
I'd wanted to create a storm so that I could become more famous and richer. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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