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
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
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
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
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
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
“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
“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
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
“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
She saw him fracture into rainbow colors through the prism of her love. — 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
“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
“It had been more than a year since the Joker’s conquest of America and we were all still in shock and going… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“Children get food shelter pocket money longholidays and love, all of it apparently free gratis, and most of the little fools think… — 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
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
“And blessed be the first sweet suffering that I felt in being conjoined with love and the bow and the shafts with… — 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
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
![“[My work] is a love song to our mongrel selves.…” quote by Salman Rushdie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/fb5/salman-rushdie-153_love_my-work-is-a-love-song-to-our-mongrel-se_1870355.jpg)
