I'll tell you what divorce hasn't taught me. It didn't teach me not to get married again. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“Why is that fairy-tales always treat marriage as an ending? And always such a perfectly happy one?” — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“Trouble in a marriage is like monsoon water accumulating on a flat roof. You don't realize it's up there, but it gets… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“The disgrace of your barrenness, Madam, is not yours alone. Don't you know that shame is collective? The shame of any one… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“Unwilling wholly to abandon the project for which his wife had died, unable to maintain any longer the absolute belief which the… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“He knew that his father had finally run hard enough and long enough to wear down the frontiers between the worlds, he… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“His mother had survived decades of marriage to his angry, disappointed, alcoholic father by developing what she called a “forgettery” instead of… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“and here is Nussie's husband, Ismail the lawyer, who has learned an important lesson from his son's forcep-birth: 'Nothing comes out right… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“Trouble in a marriage,” he later wrote, “is like monsoon water accumulating on a flat roof. You don’t realize it’s up there,… — 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
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
