Quotes from Salman Rushdie

Efendilerinizi deÄŸiÅŸtirmek için giysilerinizi deÄŸiÅŸtirin.

But now living women wanted to be doll-like, to cross the frontier and look like toys. Now the doll was the original, the woman the representation. These living dolls, these stringless marionettes, were not just dolled up on the outside. Behind their high-style exteriors, beneath that perfectly lucent skin, they were so stuffed full of behavioral chips, so thoroughly programmed for action, so perfectly groomed and wardrobed, that there was no room left in them for messy humanity.

cling to the love of being alive and living a decent life. That's the love that makes you real.

Abraham as a boy crawled around the synagogue bum-in-air with his nose pressed against antique Chinese blue. He never told his mother that his father had reappeared in ceramic form on the synagogue floor a year after he decamped, in a little blue rowing-boat with blue-skinned foreign-looking types by his side, heading off towards an equally blue horizon.

a creature with white skin and green hair and bright, bright red lips

He called himself Hristo Dimitarov, but that was a nom de guerre constructed from the names of two celebrated Bulgarian soccer players

Why even try to understand the human condition if humanity revealed itself as grotesque, dark, not worth it.

It is a true desire of every artist to impose his or her vision on the world

o give a thing a name, a label, a handle; to rescue it from anonymity, to pluck it out of the Place of Namelessness, in short to identify it — well, that's a way of bringing the said thing into being.

His smile was the rictus of a beast.

Words are for word people. You are not a person of that type. Concern yourself only with deeds.

But the jungle, like all refuges, was entirely other - was both less and more - than he had expected.

After clearing away innumerable dog-hairs, swatting countless fleas and extracting from the carpet the remnants of a shattered glass eye, she protested to the University's comptroller of works that, if this sort of thing was going to keep happening, she deserved a small pay raise.

H. Ford standing by his assembly line cried out, 'If the people of this nation understood our banking and monetary system, I believe there would be a revolution tomorrow morning.

Beware, the light seemed to say, for I come to burn and judge.

If you are for Allah, I am for Al-Lat. And she doesn't believe your God when he recognizes her. Her opposition to him is implacable, irrevocable, engulfing. The war between us cannot end in truce. And what a truce! Yours is a patronizing, condescending lord. Al-Lat hasn't the slightest wish to be Allah's daughter. She is his equal, as I am yours.

My diaries have always been my friends. The written word is so much more constant than human beings.

But the city in its corruption refused to submit to the dominion of the cartographers

Nobody has the right to not be offended. That right doesn't exist in any declaration I have ever read. If you are offended it is your problem, and frankly lots of things offend lots of people.

But the camera sees what he does not say. A camera is a thing easily broken or purloined; its fragility makes it fastidious. A camera requires law, order, the thin blue line. Seeking to preserve itself, it remains behind the shielding wall, observing the shadow-lands from afar, and of course from above: that is, it chooses sides.

I will learn that the deepest meaning of love is renunciation, giving up one's own dream to fulfill the dream of the beloved.

If the people of this nation understood our banking and monetary system, I believe there would be a revolution tomorrow morning.

Instead of making myself write the book I ought to write, the novel that was expected of me, I conjured up the book I myself would have liked to read, the sort by an unknown writer, from another age and another country, discovered in an attic. ITALO CALVINO

When the sword of the tongue is drawn, the emperor thought, it inflicts deeper cuts than the sharpest blade.