Children Quotes by Salman Rushdie

If you have children, you worry about the world you're leaving them.

— Salman Rushdie

To understand just one life you have to swallow the world ... do you wonder, then, that I was a heavy child?

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I don't think people cry reading 'Midnight's Children,' but a lot of people seem to cry watching the movie.

— Salman Rushdie

Children like being a little scared, but they don't want to be disturbed.

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I discovered that if you find the language to talk to younger readers, children can accept anything.

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If my child had prejudice in his head, I'd be ashamed. I would see it as my failure as a parent.

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“The adult chops down his childhood to help his grown-up self. The unsentimentality is appealing, don't you think?”

— Salman Rushdie

When you have children, your perspective on the parent-child relationship alters.

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“Rani, too, was perpetuating memories. Harappa the martyr, the demigod, lived on in his daughter's thoughts; but no two sets of memories…

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“He was the child of a father who was not his father; but also the child of a time which damaged reality…

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We all dream things into being; you imagine yourself having a child, and then you have a child. An inventor will think…

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“...because it is the privilige and the curse of midnight's children to be both masters and victims of their times, to forsake…

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“She allowed history to leave her without trying to hold it back, the way children allow a grand parade to pass, holding…

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It's fun to read things when you don't know all the words. Even children love it... they come up against weird words,…

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I am on Facebook, but mainly as a way to spy on my children. I find out more about them from their…

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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

...The lesson [comic books] taught children- or this child, at any rate- was perhaps the unintentionally radical truth that exceptionality was the…

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“and the incident of the Satanic verses in the early career of the Prophet, and the politics of Muhammad’s harem after his…

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“If you are for Allah, I am for Al-Lat. And she doesn't believe your God when he recognizes her. Her opposition to…

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“We live in a world of disappointment. You begin with high hopes and the beautiful innocence of childhood but you discover that…

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Games sometimes require lateral thinking. They sometimes require quite skilled hand-eye coordination and so on. But they're not in any sense intelligent…

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“Midnight has many children; the offspring of Independence were not all human. Violence, corruption, poverty, generals, chaos, greed and pepperpot… I had…

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Meaning is a shaky edifice we build out of scraps, dogmas, childhood injuries, newspaper articles, chance remarks, old fillms, small victories, people…

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I grew up falling in love with kind of story, amazing, wonder tale of the East, which if you're a child growing…

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I have been only the humblest jugglers-with-facts; and that, in a country where the truth is what it is instructed to be,…

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“And now, restored to the status of daughter in her own home, Amina began to feel the emotions of other people's food…

— Salman Rushdie

“Children, however magical, are not immune to their parents; and as the prejudices and world-views of adults began to take over their…

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“…it is a matter of record that in our sorry age with its prejudice in favour of male children many poor families…

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“So Oz finally became home; the imagined world became the actual world, as it does for us all, because the truth is…

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My children are English, and both of their mothers were English.

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Children are the vessels into which adults pour their poison.

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My first novel - the novel I wrote before 'Midnight's Children' - feels, to me, now, very - I mean, I get…

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“Love, my child, is a thing that every mother learns; it is not born with a baby, but made; and for eleven…

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One of the things I've learnt is not to depend on there being a woman in your life to make it work.…

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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

Go for broke. Always try and do too much. Dispense with safety nets. Take a deep breath before you begin talking. Aim…

— Salman Rushdie

“I am your handiwork made flesh. You took beauty and created hideousness, and out of this monstrosity your child will be born…

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I was 21 in 1968, so I'm as much a child of the '60s as is possible to be. In those years…

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“many of us, as immigrants—or our parents or our grandparents—had chosen to leave our pasts behind just as the Goldens were now…

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“Oh, alas, alas for his debauched children, flesh of his flesh, heir to all his failings and none of his strenghts!... was…

— Salman Rushdie