Salman RushdieI don't like books that play to the gallery, but I've become more concerned with telling a story as clearly and engagingly as I can.372Reading
Salman RushdieBritish society has never been cleansed of the filth of imperialism. ✨ How to Understand Kashmir and Survive the Jihadis: An Interview with Sir Salman Rushdie. Interview wit… ▶361DeathHumanity
Salman RushdieWhat grows best in the heat: fantasy; unreason; lust. ✨ Salman Rushdie (2010). Midnight's Children, p.231, Random House361Death
Salman RushdieHe would dream of discovering a magic optometrist from whom he would purchase a pair of green-tinged spectacles which would correct his regrettable myopia, and after that he would… ▶351Death
Salman RushdieWhat happened in Pakistan was that people were told: You're all Muslim, so now you're a country. As we saw in 1971 with the Bangladesh secession, the answer to that was: 'Oh no, w… ▶362Humanity
Salman RushdieThe West should be tougher on Pakistan. It is trying to play both ends against the middle - to look like the friend of the revolutionaries on the one hand and a friend of the West… ▶351Reflection
Salman RushdieThe whole story of migration and what that has done in interconnecting the planet is obviously something I've written about a lot.373Sadness
Salman RushdieBin Laden was born filthy rich and died in a rich man's house, which he had painstakingly built to the highest specifications.373DeathSadness
Salman RushdieThe world is full of things that upset people. But most of us deal with it and move on and don't try and burn the planet down.351Humanity
Salman RushdieIf 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. Indians went there because in a ho… ▶341HumanityTime
Salman RushdieI have had many more close women friends than men, and I've always assumed that comes from the fact that in my family there was such a disproportionate female element.374Truth
Salman RushdieThe Republicans were not always insane. They might've had politics I didn't agree with, but they weren't always actually certifiable.341Politics
Salman RushdieThe frustrating part of being tagged 'controversial' is people go looking for trouble where there isn't any to look for.363Humanity
Salman RushdieI'm not a prophet, but I always thought it was natural for dictatorships to fall. I remember in 1989, two months before the fall of the Berlin Wall, had you said it was going to h… ▶341PoliticsThought
Salman RushdieFree speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself. ✨ Excerpts From Rushdie's Address: 1,000 Days 'Trapped Inside a Metaphor', ar… ▶374DeathLifeTime
Salman RushdieFundamentalism isn't about religion, it's about power.341Politics
Salman RushdieSomeone asked me if I was afraid to write my memoirs. I told him: 'We have to stop drawing up accounts of fear! We live in a society in which people are allowed to tell their stor… ▶331Humanity
Salman RushdieIt may be that the books that were best liked in your lifetime are not the ones that are best liked 100 years later. ✨ TalkAsia with Monita Rajpal, www.cnn.com. February 8, … ▶342LifeReadingTime
Salman RushdieOur lives teach us who we are. ✨ Salman Rushdie (1990). In good faith, Penguin (Non-Classics)331DeathHope
Salman RushdieFor every snake, there is a ladder; for every ladder,a snake353Philosophy
Salman RushdieThe thing that I think was very brave of my younger self was that he decided he would be an idiot. Just persevere. That feels brave to me: deciding that I'm going to damn well be … ▶353DeathLoveThought
Salman RushdieTo be born again,' sang Gibreal Farishta tumbling from the heaveans, 'first you have to die. Ho ji! Ho ji! To land upon the bosomy earth, first one needs to fly Tat-taa! Takatun! … ▶354DeathLoveSadness
Salman RushdieThere is nothing like a War for the reinvention of lives.321Thought
Salman RushdieWho what am I? My answer: I am the sum total of everything that went before me, of all I have been seen done, of everything done-to-me. I am everyone everything whose being-in-the… ▶354DeathReadingTime
Salman RushdieWe were language's magpies by nature, stealing whatever sounded bright and shiny. ✨ Salman Rushdie (2000). The Ground Beneath Her Feet: A Novel, p.56, Macmillan332DeathHopeReading
Salman RushdieI've met the Dalai Lama briefly, but I would probably say my grandfather was the wisest person I ever met. He was my mother's father, an Indian, a family doctor, and very unlike m… ▶365Time
Salman RushdieYou want all your books to stick around after you've gone.365Reading
Salman RushdieThe West sees Iran as an important force in the gulf.332Reading
Salman Rushdie'The Satanic Verses' was denied the ordinary life of a novel. It became something smaller and uglier: an insult. ✨ Salman Rushdie (2012). Joseph Anton, p.115, Random House343DeathLifeReading
Salman RushdieThe problem of telling contemporary history is that your message gets outdated. ✨ 'Everybody needs to get thicker skins'. Interview with Stuart Jeffries, www.thegu… ▶365Hope
