Nature Quotes by Salman Rushdie

We were language's magpies by nature, stealing whatever sounded bright and shiny.

— Salman Rushdie

“we can best understand the nature of this culture if we say that it found its truest mirror in a corpse”

— Salman Rushdie

Original thought, original artistic expression is by its very nature questioning, irreverent, iconoclastic.

— Salman Rushdie

There is no magic on earth strong enough to wipe out the legacies of one's parents.

— Salman Rushdie

“Life's bruises demythologise us all. The earth gapes.”

— Salman Rushdie

“Civilsation is the sleight of hand that conceals our natures from ourselves.”

— Salman Rushdie

“The problem is not technological,” he said. “And there is no technological solution to it. The problem is human, human nature in…

— Salman Rushdie

Such is the miraculous nature of the future of exiles: what is first uttered in the impotence of an overheated apartment becomes…

— Salman Rushdie

“We strive for heights bit our natures betray us, Chamcha thought; clowns in search of crowns. The bitterness overcame him”

— Salman Rushdie

An attack upon our ability to tell stories is not just censorship - it is a crime against our nature as human…

— Salman Rushdie

I do think that there is such a thing as human nature, and that the things that we have in common are…

— Salman Rushdie

Names, once they are in common use, quickly become mere sounds, their etymology being buried, like so many of the earth's marvels,…

— Salman Rushdie

Writers and politicians are natural rivals. Both groups try to make the world in their own images; they fight for the same…

— Salman Rushdie

“union of opposites to form human nature was just what human beings told themselves to rationalize away their imperfections. Maybe it was…

— Salman Rushdie

“But one thinks, also, of the parable of the scorpion and the frog. The scorpion acts according to its nature even when…

— Salman Rushdie

Once you have been in an earthquake you know, even if you survive without a scratch, that like a stroke in the…

— Salman Rushdie

“London had grown unstable once again, revealing its true, capricious, tormented nature, its anguish of a city that had lost its sense…

— Salman Rushdie

“Exile is a dream of glorious return. Exile is a vision of revolution: Elba, not St Helena. It is an endless paradox:…

— Salman Rushdie

“I repeat: there is no place for monsters in civilized society. If such creatures roam the earth, they do so out on…

— Salman Rushdie

“London, its conglomerate nature mirroring his own, its reticence also his; its gargoyles, the ghostly footfalls in its streets of Roman feet,…

— Salman Rushdie

“History is natural selection. Mutant versions of the past struggle for dominance; new species of fact arise,and old, saurian truths go to…

— Salman Rushdie

When we stop believing in gods we can start believing in their stories, I retort. There are of course no such things…

— Salman Rushdie

“I am by nature an inward man, he said silently into the disconnected phone. I have struggled, in my fashion, to find…

— Salman Rushdie

“That was how we spoke, my mother and I: in puns and games and rhymes. In, you might say, lyrics. This was…

— Salman Rushdie

“Live on, survive, for the earth gives forth wonders. It may swallow your heart, but the wonders keep on coming. You stand…

— Salman Rushdie

“Tragedy happens - "tragic mistakes" happen - when men act according to their flawed natures, in fulfillment of their preordained destinies. The…

— Salman Rushdie