“we can best understand the nature of this culture if we say that it found its truest mirror in a corpse” — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
I remember when I was young, many cities in the Muslim world were cosmopolitan cities with a lot of culture. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
The history of a culture can be determined by its untranslatable words. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Sometimes we feel we straddle two cultures; at other times, that we fall between two stools. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
If the culture shifts, if people think differently about women, the art will shift, too. You can't ask art to make social… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
The idea of the sacred is quite simply one of the most conservative notions in any culture, because it seeks to turn… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
What I've always tried to find in my books are points at which the private lives of the characters, and also my… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
The Koran was revealed at a time of great change in the Arab world, the seventh-century shift from a matriarchal nomadic culture… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
I reluctantly concluded that there was no way for me to help bring into being the Muslim culture I'd dreamed of, the… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“What's a „culture“? Look it up. „A group of micro-organisms grown in a nutrient substance under controlled conditions“. A squirm of germs… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
The act of migration puts into crisis everything about the migrating individual or group, everything about identity and selfhood and culture and… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Not even the visionary or mystical experience ever lasts very long. It is for art to capture that experience, to offer it… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Islam doesn't have to mean blind faith. It can mean what it always meant in your family, a culture, a civilization, as… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
My father decided that he was such a admirer of Ibn Rushd's philosophy, thinking that he changed the family name to Rushdie.… — 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
