Our lives are not what we deserve; they are, let us agree, in many ways deficient. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“He returned to Cambridge feeling, at the ripe old age of twenty, that life was passing him by.” — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“I have been so-many too-many persons; life, unlike syntax, allows one more than three.” — 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
People don't like being around despair. Our tolerance for the truly hopeless, for those who are irredeemably broken by life is strictly… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
It's so disappointing, to put it mildly, that people know so much about my life. Because it means that they're always trying… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Free societies...are societies in motion, and with motion comes tension, dissent, friction. Free people strike sparks, and those sparks are the best… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“it feels as if half your life is a sort of struggle toward the sunlight. Then you get five minutes in the… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
When you start writing about the stuff that is the central experience of your own life, you can talk about whatever you… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
One of the things I've learnt is not to depend on there being a woman in your life to make it work.… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
So Thomas Pynchon wants a private life and no photographs and nobody to know his home address. I can dig it, I… — 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
“Morality came before religion, and religion was our ancestors' way of responding to that built-in need. And if that was so, then… — 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
The point is always reached after which the gods no longer share their lives with mortal men and women, they die or… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“the art of the novel revealed anything, it was that human nature was the great constant, in any culture, in any place,… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“Ormus liked to compose his own songs up on the flat roof of the apartment block, and spent eternities up there, lost… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“Unfortunately life has a way of sidetracking one’s greatest ambitions. Painters, would-be artists, end up whitewashing walls. Sculptors are forced to design… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
I didn't want to become some embittered old hack getting his revenge for the rest of my life. And I didn't want… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“Things aren't like this," he kept repeating. "It shouldn't be this way." As if he had access to some other plane of… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“I'll tell you a secret about fear: it's an absolutist. With fear, it's all or nothing. Either, like any bullying tyrant, it… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“He told her: he fell from the sky and lived. She took a deep breath and believed him, because of her father's… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“He needed her so badly, to reassure himself of his own existence, that he never comprehended the desperation in her dazzling, permanent… — 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
“Such were the factors that detached Ormus Cama from the ordinary ties of family life. The ties that strangle us, which we… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
To put it as simply as possible: I am not a Muslim.[...] I do not accept the charge of apostacy, because I… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“[What Rushdie took away from reading Gunter Grass's The Tin Drum]: Go for broke. Always try and do too much. Dispense with… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“If power was a a cry, then human lives were lived in the echo of the cries of others.” — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
The world is about the way in which our dreams intersect with our real life. Endlessly, the world of the imagination changes… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Have you noticed the physical resemblance between Imran Khan and Gaddafi? If you were making a movie of the life of Gaddafi… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“Be so good as to cease to cast yourself in fictions. Pinch yourself, or slap yourself across the face if that's what… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“He remembered the old Chinese proverb, sometimes ascribed to Confucius: If you sit by the river for long enough, the body of… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
I am gagged and imprisoned. I can't even speak. I want to kick a football in a park with my son. Ordinary,… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“The human race is a life sentence...it's a rough confinement, and sometimes we all need to break out of jail.” — 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
![“To put it as simply as possible: I am not a Muslim.[...] I do not accept the charge of apostacy, because I have never in my adult life affirmed any belief, and what one has not affirmed one can not be said to have apostasized from. The Islam I know states clearly that 'there can be no coercion in…” quote by Salman Rushdie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/c44/salman-rushdie-153_accepting_to-put-it-as-simply-as-possible-i-am-not_245927.jpg)
![“[What Rushdie took away from reading Gunter Grass's The Tin Drum]: Go for broke. Always try and do too much. Dispense with safety nets. Take a deep breath before you begin talking. Aim for the stars. Keep grinning. Be ruthless. Argue with the world. And never forget that writing is as close as we…” quote by Salman Rushdie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/dc3/salman-rushdie-153_advice_what-rushdie-took-away-from-reading-gunt_740546.jpg)
