“A live dog is better than a dead lion, but death is preferable to poverty.” — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Terror is glamour - not only, but also. I am firmly convinced that there's something like a fascination with death among suicide… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“you lost parents. Your grief defines you and shuts you off from other people. That’s what I think.” — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“Mostly, I heard about it from the Estate servants, who found it quite natural to speak openly of a death, but rarely… — 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
“Her parents were killed in their private helicopter. An elite death but at the moment of dying we are all penniless. She… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Some people are paralyzed by the consciousness of death, other people live with it… The fatwa certainly made me think about it… — 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
“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
“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
We who have grown up on a diet of honour and shame can still grasp what must seem unthinkable to people living… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Five mysteries hold the keys to the unseen: the act of love, and the birth of a baby, and the contemplation of… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
The worst, most insidious effect of censorship is that, in the end, it can deaden the imagination of the people. Where there… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“Study history, Alleluia. In this century history stopped paying attention to the old psychological orientation of reality. I mean, these days, character… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“Is it possible that evil is never total, that its victory, no matter how overwhelming, is never absolute? Consider this fallen man.… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“This is how people behave when their dailiness is destroyed, when for a few moments they see, plain and unadorned, one of… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“Otto Cone as a man of seventy-plus years jumped into an open lift shaft and died. Now this was a subject which… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“In this century history stopped paying attention to the old psychological orientation of reality. I mean, these days, character isn't destiny any… — 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
