"Everything has shape, if you look for it.……" — Salman Rushdie

"Everything has shape, if you look for it. There is no escape from form."

— Salman Rushdie

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482 Quotes by Salman Rushdie

Salman Rushdie has 482 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

The only privilege literature deserves - and this privilege it requires in order to exist - is the privilege of…
The liveliness of literature lies in its exceptionality, in being the individual, idiosyncratic vision of one human being, in which,…
Five mysteries hold the keys to the unseen: the act of love, and the birth of a baby, and the…
There needs to be a thorough examination, by Muslims everywhere, of why it is that the faith they love breeds…
Live on, survive, for the earth gives forth wonders. It may swallow your heart, but the wonders keep on coming.…
Good advice is rarer than rubies.
In India, as elsewhere in our darkening world, religion is the poison in the blood. Where religion intervenes, mere innocence…
For a fellow who's not to much to look at, you have the instincts of a champion.
A man who invents himself needs someone to believe in him... Not only the need to be believed in, but…
Free speech is life itself.
After a long, hopeless war, people will settle for peace, at almost any price.
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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More Escape Quotes

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In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism. — Hannah Arendt
To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death,… — Aristotle
I knew from the age of 16 that I wanted to be a writer because I just didn't think I… — Paul Auster
The first time that you escape from home or the small town that you live in - there's a reason… — Billie Joe Armstrong
Hell is of this world and there are men who are unhappy escapees from hell, escapees destined ETERNALLY to reenact… — Antonin Artaud
The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in… — Marcus Aurelius
Because we can't escape our ancient hunger to live close to nature, we encircle the house with lawns and gardens,… — Diane Ackerman
In '73 I photographed the cannibals in New Guinea. They treated me OK but they didn't make you feel relaxed...… — David Bailey
When you read a great book, you don't escape from life, you plunge deeper into it. — Julian Barnes
We don't create a fantasy world to escape reality. We create it to be able to stay. — Lynda Barry
There is only one way left to escape the alienation of present day society: to retreat ahead of it. — Roland Barthes
Of all escape mechanisms, death is the most efficient. — Henry Ward Beecher

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