Salman Rushdie Quotes - Page 21

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• How to forgive the world for its beauty, which merely disguises its ugliness; for its gentleness, which merely cloaks its cruelty; for its illusion of continuity, seamlessly, as the night follows the day, so to speak- whereas in reality life is a series of brutal raptures, falling upon your defenseless hands, like the blows of a woodman's axe?

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  Life, Fall, Blow

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• India, the new myth--a collective fiction in which anything was possible, a fable rivalled only by the two other mighty fantasies: money and God.

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  Two, Fables, India

  Salman Rushdie (2010). “Midnight's Children”, p.150, Random House

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• A figure of speech is a shifty thing; it can be twisted or it can be straight.

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  Speech, Twisted, Figures

  Salman Rushdie (1990). “Haroun and the Sea of Stories”, Penguin Books

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• People don't like being around despair. Our tolerance for the truly hopeless, for those who are irredeemably broken by life is strictly limited. The sob stories we like are the ones that end before we're bored.

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  People, Broken, Bored

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• We must conclude that it is not only a particular political ideology that has failed, but the idea that men and women could ever define themselves in terms that exclude their spiritual needs.

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  Spiritual, Men, Ideas

  Salman Rushdie (1990). “Is nothing sacred?”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

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• I've never had very high regard for therapists. I owe my health, my mental survival, to my friends and loved ones.

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  Survival, Loved Ones, Therapists

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• Throughout human history, the apostles of purity, those who have claimed to possess a total explanation, have wrought havoc among mere mixed-up human beings.

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  History, Purity, Havoc

  Salman Rushdie (1990). “In good faith”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

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• If my child had prejudice in his head, I'd be ashamed. I would see it as my failure as a parent.

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  Children, Parent, Prejudice

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• British society has never been cleansed of the filth of imperialism.

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  Filth, Imperialism, British

  "How to Understand Kashmir and Survive the Jihadis: An Interview with Sir Salman Rushdie". Interview with Johann Hari, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 8, 2009.

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• Airport security exists to guard us against terrorist attacks.

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  Airports, Terrorist, Airport Security

  "Satanic view that equates democracies and dictatorships" by Salman Rushdie, www.theguardian.com. December 16, 2012.

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• All my adult life, if I didn't have several hours a day to sit in a room by myself, I would get antsy and irritable.

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  Adults, Rooms, Hours

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• American literature has always been immigrant.

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  Literature, American Literature, Immigrants

  "Salman Rushdie: the fatwa, Islamic fundamentalism and Joseph Anton". Interview with Stuart Jeffries, www.theguardian.com. September 16, 2012.

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• Before I came to England, my favorite authors were P. G. Wodehouse and Agatha Christie. I used to devour both.

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  England, My Favorite, Used

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• Broad-mindedness is related to tolerance; open-mindedness is the sibling of peace.

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  Sibling, Tolerance, Broads

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• Children like being a little scared, but they don't want to be disturbed.

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  Children, Want, Littles

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• I'm no friend of Tony Blair's and I consider the Middle East policies of the United States and the UK fatal.

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  No Friends, Middle East, United States

  "Terror Is Glamour". "Spiegel" Interview, www.spiegel.de. August 28, 2006.

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• I'm not a big fan of there being voiceovers in movies. I really prefer it when the film tells it story.

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  Fans, Stories, Film

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• I've always prided myself on my discipline as a writer. I do it like a job. I get up in the morning and go to my desk.

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  Morning, Jobs, Discipline

  "The Bookers' favourite". Interview with Andrew Anthony, www.theguardian.com. April 5, 2008.

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• I've never yet managed to write a novel which didn't have an Indian central character.

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  Writing, Character, Novel

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• If bigots behave like bigots, it's not a huge surprise.

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  Surprise, Behave, Bigots

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• If Turkey wants to join Europe, it will have to become a European country, and that might take a long time.

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  Country, Europe, Turkeys

  "Salman Rushdie: Inside the Mind of Jihadists". Interview with Nathan Gardels, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 25, 2011.

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• It's Kennedy's war, Vietnam. Lyndon Johnson got all the flak, but it's Kennedy's war.

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  War, Vietnam, Johnson

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• Mo Yan is the Chinese equivalent of the Soviet Russian apparatchik writer Mikhail Sholokhov: a patsy of the regime.

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  Chinese, Regimes, Soviet

  "Literary Feuds of 2012" by Rachel Arons, www.newyorker.com. December 30, 2012.

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• My grandmother was very fierce and gruff. She was quite small, but she was very wide.

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  Grandmother, Fierce, My Grandmother

  "How to Understand Kashmir and Survive the Jihadis: An Interview with Sir Salman Rushdie". Interview with Johann Hari, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 8, 2009.

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• Original thought, original artistic expression is by its very nature questioning, irreverent, iconoclastic.

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  Expression, Original Thought, Artistic

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