Salman Rushdie quotes - page 4

So India's problem turns out to be the world's problem. What happened in India has happened in God's name. The problem's name is God. (Salman Rushdie)
To understand just one life, you have to swallow the world. View quote
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Not all possibilities are open to us. The world is finite; our hopes spill over its rim. View quote
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I learned: the first lesson of my life: nobody can face the world with his eyes open all the time. View quote
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We crave permission openly to become our secret selves. View quote
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I want more than what I want. (Vina Apsara) View quote
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We are described into corners, and then we must describe ourselves out of corners. View quote
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When you throw everything up in the air anything becomes possible. View quote
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perhaps, if one wishes to remain an individual in the midst of the teeming multitudes, one must make oneself grotesque. View quote
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For every snake, there is a ladder; for every ladder, a snake. View quote
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It may be argued that the past is a country from which we have all emigrated, that its loss is part of our common humanity. (Salman Rushdie)
Having been borne across the world, we are translated men. It is normally supposed that something always gets lost in translation; I cling, obstinately, to the notion that something can also be gained. View quote
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Happy endings must come at the end of something,' the Walrus pointed out. 'If they happen in the middle of a story, or an adventure, or the like, all they do is cheer things up for awhile. View quote
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Ignorantly is how we all fall in love; for it is a kind of fall. Closing our eyes, we leap from that cliff in hope of a soft landing. Nor is it always soft; but still, without that leap nobody comes to life. View quote
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optimism is a disease. View quote
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Exile is a dream of a glorious return. Exile is a vision of revolution: Elba, not St Helena. It is an endless paradox: looking forward by always looking back. The exile is a ball hurled high into the air. View quote
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My horizon's have shrunk and I have only endings to write. View quote
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Nobody can judge an internal injury by the size of the superficial wound. View quote
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My heart broke open and history fell in. View quote
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Between shame and shamelessness lies the axis upon which we turn; meteorological conditions at both these poles are of the most extreme, ferocious type. Shamelessness, shame: the roots of violence. View quote
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What grows best in the heat: fantasy; unreason; lust. (Salman Rushdie)
If love is a yearning to be like (even to become) the beloved, then hatred, it must be said, can be engendered by the same ambition, when it cannot be fulfilled. View quote
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The inevitable triumph of illusion over reality that was the single most obvious truth about the history of the human race. View quote
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A people that has remained convinced of its greatness and invulnerability, that has chosen to believe such a myth in the face of all the evidence, is a people in the grip of a kind of sleep, or madness. View quote
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I know that when people pull apart, they usually employ misunderstanding as a weapon, deliberately getting hold of the stick's wrong end, impaling themselves on its point in order to prove the perfidy of the other. View quote
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