"A thing that happens to migrants is that……" — Salman Rushdie
"A thing that happens to migrants is that they lose many of the traditional things which root identity, which root the self."
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482 Quotes by Salman Rushdie
Salman Rushdie has 482 quotes on this site.
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The only privilege literature deserves - and this privilege it requires in order to exist - is the privilege of…
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The liveliness of literature lies in its exceptionality, in being the individual, idiosyncratic vision of one human being, in which,…
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Five mysteries hold the keys to the unseen: the act of love, and the birth of a baby, and the…
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There needs to be a thorough examination, by Muslims everywhere, of why it is that the faith they love breeds…
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Live on, survive, for the earth gives forth wonders. It may swallow your heart, but the wonders keep on coming.…
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Good advice is rarer than rubies.
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In India, as elsewhere in our darkening world, religion is the poison in the blood. Where religion intervenes, mere innocence…
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For a fellow who's not to much to look at, you have the instincts of a champion.
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A man who invents himself needs someone to believe in him... Not only the need to be believed in, but…
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Free speech is life itself.
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After a long, hopeless war, people will settle for peace, at almost any price.
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If you want to tell the untold stories, if you want to give voice to the voiceless, you've got to…
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War is what happens when language fails.
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Everything that happens happens as it should, and if you observe carefully, you will find this to be so.
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Nothing happens to any man that he is not formed by nature to bear.
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There is nothing happens to any person but what was in his power to go through with.
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It sometimes happens that a woman is handsomer at twenty-nine than she was ten years before.
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A Scout is never taken by surprise; he knows exactly what to do when anything unexpected happens.
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