“Love is spring after winter. It comes to heal life’s wounds, inflicted by the unloving cold.” — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
The history of a culture can be determined by its untranslatable words. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
If somebody's trying to shut you up, sing louder, and if possible, better. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
I'm not saying I am never going to fall in love again, but there is no need to marry. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“Get thee behind me, Satan. Seek not come between a lover and his love.” — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“It is all for love. Which is a wonderful and dashing matter. But which can also be a very foolish thing.” — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
If love is a yearning to be like (even to become) the beloved, then hatred, it must be said, can be engendered… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
A man who invents himself needs someone to believe in him... Not only the need to be believed in, but the need… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
One either loves, or waits for love, or banishes love for good. That is the full range of possible choices. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“The world is full of love stories, and all lovers are in a sense the avatars of their predecessors.” — 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
“The actor's life offers, on a daily basis, the simulacrum of love; a mask can be satisfied, or at least consoled, by… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“Love, my child, is a thing that every mother learns; it is not born with a baby, but made; and for eleven… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
I grew up falling in love with kind of story, amazing, wonder tale of the East, which if you're a child growing… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“She'd never shaken off the feeling of being damaged by her ignorance of Love, of what it might be like to be… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“I allowed myself the supernatural, the transcendent, because, I told myself, our love of metaphor is pre-religious, born of our need to… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“Then she found him. - And maybe he'd invented her, too, a little bit, invented someone worth rushing out of one's old… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“When a reader falls in love with a book, it leaves its essence inside him, like radioactive fallout in an arable field,… — 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
“I am your handiwork made flesh. You took beauty and created hideousness, and out of this monstrosity your child will be born… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“When you pray for what you most want in the world, its opposite comes along with it. I was given a woman… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Abraham Zogoiby covered his face that night in August 1939 because he had been assailed by fear, [...] a sudden apprehension that… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“Once upon a time there was a mother who, in order to become a mother, had agreed to change her name; who… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
She saw him fracture into rainbow colors through the prism of her love. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“This is how we are: we fall in love with each other’s strengths, but love deepens towards permanence when we fall in… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“Between the self and the other, between the visionary and the psychopath, between the lover and his love, between the overworld and… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Ignorantly is how we all fall in love; for it is a kind of fall. Closing our eyes, we leap from that… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
But love is what we want, not freedom. Who then is the unluckier man? The beloved, who is given his heart's desire… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Every Day Is for the Thief, by turns funny, mournful, and acerbic, offers a portrait of Nigeria in which anger, perhaps the… — 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
When a reader falls in love with a book, it leaves its essence inside him, like radioactive fallout in an arable field,… — 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 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
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