"Such is the miraculous nature of the future……" — Salman Rushdie
"Such is the miraculous nature of the future of exiles: what is first uttered in the impotence of an overheated apartment becomes the fate of nations."
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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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Kill all the rich people. Break up their cars and apartments. Bring the revolution home, kill your parents, that's where…
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When I came to New York and I opened the window of the thirty-fifth-floor apartment, there's light pollution and fog,…
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I'm not suggesting people abandon musical instruments and start playing their cars and apartments, but I do think the reign…
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I seemed to belong to three countries: I had an apartment in Paris, a house in Hollywood, and when I…
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I do a great deal of research - particularly in the apartments of tall blondes.
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I've leased the apartment; my partner is going to come out here. But we're keeping our house in Chicago because…
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I remember crying all the time. My major thing growing up was I couldn't fit in. Because I was from…
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Me and my books in the same apartment, like a gherkin in its vinegar.
— Gustave Flaubert
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It was a terrible psychic blow... Ebbets Field was replaced by a housing project. How could a father tell his…
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