A purpose of our lives is to broaden what we can understand and say and therefore be. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Our lives are not what we deserve; they are, let us agree, in many ways deficient. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
You never know the answers to the questions of life until you are asked. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
All my adult life, if I didn't have several hours a day to sit in a room by myself, I would get… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Something was badly amiss with the spiritual life of the planet...Too many demons inside people claiming to believe in God. — 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
“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
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
“He returned to Cambridge feeling, at the ripe old age of twenty, that life was passing him by.” — 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
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
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
“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
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
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
“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
The accidents of my life have given me the ability to make stories in which different parts of the world are brought… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“The crux of a great person’s life is the choice between doing what is right and what he wants to do. Abraham… — 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
...The lesson [comic books] taught children- or this child, at any rate- was perhaps the unintentionally radical truth that exceptionality was the… — 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
“Symbolic value of the pickling process: all the six hundred million eggs which gave birth to the population of India could fit… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“Please," Professor Solanka asked. "Just tell me." "That's the worst part," Dubdub said. "There's nothing to tell. No direct or proximate cause.… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“Live on, survive, for the earth gives forth wonders. It may swallow your heart, but the wonders keep on coming. You stand… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“To grow up steeped in these tellings was to learn two unforgettable lessons: first, that stories were not true (there were no… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“Love is spring after winter. It comes to heal life’s wounds, inflicted by the unloving cold.” — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“A race that rejected the idea of personal sacrifice would surely be erased from time's records before long.” — 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
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
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
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
![“...The lesson [comic books] taught children- or this child, at any rate- was perhaps the unintentionally radical truth that exceptionality was the greatest and most heroic of values; that those who were unlike the crowd were to be treasured the most lovingly; and that this exceptionality was a…” quote by Salman Rushdie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6ed/salman-rushdie-153_book_the-lesson-comic-books-taught-children-o_2844430.jpg)
