Fundamentalists believe that we don't believe in anything. In their view of the world, they are in possession of absolute certainties, while… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“Nobody ever wanted to go to war, but if a war came your way, it might as well be the right war,… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
There's a lot of conflict and darkness inside everybody's family. We all pretend to outsiders that it's not so, but behind locked… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“Across the Atlantic, in another theatre of the identity wars, the British prime minister was narrowing the definition of Britishness to exclude… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Among the great struggles of man-good/evil, reason/unreason, etc.-there is also this mighty conflict between the fantasy of Home and the fantasy of… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
In Europe, the Enlightenment of the 18th century was seen as a battle against the desire of the Church to limit intellectual… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“This, too, was like seeing double. This was where my heartaches began. In combat zones there is no structure, the form of… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“Their true characters were shown not in the war they fought, but in the peace they made.” — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
The only way to find out why someone decides to engage in armed combat is to look at their individual personality. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
War used to be something you could stand on the nearby hill and watch. Now we have total war; everybody's in it.… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“Even if Shaheed had been able to hear me, I could not then have told him what I later became convinced was… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
I've never read anything so badly written that got published. It made 'Twilight' look like 'War and Peace.' — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Vertigo is the conflict between the fear of falling and the desire to fall. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
It's Kennedy's war, Vietnam. Lyndon Johnson got all the flak, but it's Kennedy's war. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
After a long, hopeless war, people will settle for peace, at almost any price. — 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
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
