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Time Quotes by Salman Rushdie
- What kind of idea are you? Are you the kind that compromises, does deals, accomodates itself to society, aims to find a niche, to survive;…
- If Turkey wants to join Europe, it will have to become a European country, and that might take a long time.
- Every time you finish a book, you have a terrible feeling that there's just never going to be another one. But fortunately, so far, the…
- I do have a lot of time for people in my life, and friendship is a very important subject for me. I think I'm unusual…
- I used to say, 'There is a God-shaped hole in me.' For a long time I stressed the absence, the hole. Now I find it…
- If you look at Indian movies, every time they wanted an exotic locale, they would have a dance number in Kashmir. Kashmir was India's fairyland.…
- In any authoritarian society, the possessor of power dictates, and if you try and step outside, he will come after you. This is equally true…
- In writing 'The Satanic Verses,' I think I was writing for the first time from the whole of myself. The English part, the Indian part.…
- Islam is unusual in that it's the only one of the great world religions which was born inside recorded history. That there's an enormous amount…
- Like everybody else, I've had relationships in which I was passionately in love but was completely miserable all the time and didn't trust the person…
- One of the reasons my name is Rushdie is that my father was an admirer of Ibn Rush'd, the 12th century Arab philosopher known as…
- Perhaps because my relationship with my father went through such a long, bumpy time, it's been very important for me to work to try to…
- The Koran was revealed at a time of great change in the Arab world, the seventh-century shift from a matriarchal nomadic culture to an urban…
- There was a series called 'Game of Thrones' which was very popular here in the United States, a post-Tolkien kind of thing. It was garbage,…
- We live in a frightened time, and people self-censor all the time and are afraid of going into some subjects because they are worried about…
- Who what am I? My answer: I am everyone everything whose being-in-the-world affected was affected by mine. I am anything that happens after I’ve gone…
- Make as much racket as you like people. Noise is life and an excess of noise is a sign that life is good. There will…
- Our human tragedy is that we are unable to comprehend our experience, it slips through our fingers, we can't hold on to it, and the…
- Reality is a question of perspective; the further you get from the past, the more concrete and plausible it seems - but as you approach…
- No people whose word for 'yesterday' is the same as their word for 'tomorrow' can be said to have a firm grip on the time.
- I learned: the first lesson of my life: nobody can face the world with his eyes open all the time.
- In Europe, the Enlightenment of the 18th century was seen as a battle against the desire of the Church to limit intellectual freedom, a battle…
- In the experience of art, time seems not to exist.
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