What you were is forever who you are.
("Midnight's Children")
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I fell victim to the temptation of every autobiographer, to the illusion that since the past exists only in one's memories and the words which strive vainly to encapsulate them, it is possible to create past events simply by saying they occurred.Salman Rushdie
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-world affected was affected by mine. I am anything that happens after I'm gone which would not have happened if I had not come.
Salman Rushdie
The liveliness of literature lies in its exceptionality, in being the individual, idiosyncratic vision of one human being, in which, to our delight and great surprise, we may find our own vision reflected.
Salman Rushdie
Most of what matters in your life takes place in your absence.
Salman Rushdie
I do not need the idea of God to explain the world I live in.
Salman Rushdie
If Woody Allen were a Muslim, he'd be dead by now.
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