The history of a culture can be determined by its untranslatable words. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“Is history to be considered the property of the participants only?” — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
The problem of telling contemporary history is that your message gets outdated. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
History could claw upward as well as down. The powerful could be deafened by the cries of the poor. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“The people with whom you share a history: these are the people who can leave you shipwrecked and drowning.” — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
In this world without quiet corners, there can be no easy escapes from history, from hullabaloo, from terrible, unquiet fuss. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Throughout human history, the apostles of purity, those who have claimed to possess a total explanation, have wrought havoc among mere mixed-up… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
The inevitable triumph of illusion over reality that was the single most obvious truth about the history of the human race. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“Why, alone of all the more-than-five-hundred-million, should I have to bear the burden of history?” — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Religion is responsible for a lot of the problems in the history of the world and it's not something that I practice… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“Methwold's hair, parted in the middle has a lot to do with my beginnings. It was one of those hairlines along which… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
The interesting thing about history sometimes. is that you know these people existed, and you knew what jobs they did, but you… — 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
“Family history, of course, has its proper dietary laws. One is supposed to swallow and digest only the permitted parts of it,… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“...they all were, in the grip of a huge fantasy: the idea that men would not be judged by who they once… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
So when I studied history at Cambridge, I did a special subject in that, exactly that. And then actually that - while… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
I've been fascinated by Machiavelli since I was very young. I've always felt that he had a bad rap from history, and… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
There is a widespread difficulty in the Muslim world, which has to do with how the people are taught about examining their… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
The history of life was not the bumbling progress - the very English, middle-class progress - Victorian thought had wanted it to… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“nothing is sacred in and of itself...Ideas, texts, even people can be made sacred... the act of making sacred is in truth… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
The field of the novel is very rich. If you're a composer, you're well aware of the history of composition, and you… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“Nobody ever wanted to go to war, but if a war came your way, it might as well be the right war,… — 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
“A few seconds later, my father broke his big toe; but his accident was a mere trifle when set beside what had… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Islam is unusual in that it's the only one of the great world religions which was born inside recorded history. That there's… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“She, whose life had blown up, emptying her of history and leaving in its place only that dark dream of majesty, that… — 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
“For a long while I have believed – this is perhaps my version of Sir Darius Xerxes Cama’s belief in a fourth… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“And eventually in that house where everyone, even the fugitive hiding in the cellar from his faceless enemies, finds his tongue cleaving… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
One of the things I know from the study of history is that history surprises you. History is not written. It's not… — 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
“One day, perhaps, the world may taste the pickles of history. They may be too strong for some palates, their smell may… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
If you take a look at history, you will find that the understanding of what is good and evil has always existed… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
I have always thought that these two ways of talking, one is the fantastic, the fable, the fairy tale, and the other… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
There are two things in Indian history - one is the incredible optimism and potential of the place, and the other is… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
In Europe, the Enlightenment of the 18th century was seen as a battle against the desire of the Church to limit intellectual… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“History is natural selection. Mutant versions of the past struggle for dominance; new species of fact arise,and old, saurian truths go to… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
The question I'm always asking myself is: are we masters or victims? Do we make history, or does history make us? Do… — 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
