Salman Rushdie Quotes (87 Quotes)
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- Believe in your own eyes and you'll get into a lot of trouble, hot water, a mess.
(Salman Rushdie, "Haroun And The Sea Of Stories")
- 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, "Midnight's Children")
- He knew what he knew: that the real world was full of magic, so magical worls could easily be real.
(Salman Rushdie, "Haroun And The Sea Of Stories")
- I have been a swallower of lives; and to know me, just the one of me, you'll have to swallow the lot as well.
(Salman Rushdie, "Midnight's Children")
- If you want pay, then just be gay.
(Salman Rushdie, "Haroun And The Sea Of Stories")
- I have been so-many too-many persons; life, unlike syntax, allows one more than three.
(Salman Rushdie, "Midnight's Children")
- It is all for love. Which is a wonderful and dashing matter. But which can also be a very foolish thing.
(Salman Rushdie, "Haroun And The Sea Of Stories")
- 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.
(Salman Rushdie, "Midnight's Children")
- Nothing comes from nothing, Thieflet; no story comes from nowhere; new stories are born from old--it is the new combinations that make them new.
(Salman Rushdie, "Haroun And The Sea Of Stories")
- Memory has its own special kind. It selects, eliminates, alters, exaggerates, minimizes, glorifies, and vilifies also; but in the end it creates its own reality, its heterogeneous but usually coherent version of events; and no sane human being ever trusts someone else's version more than his own.
(Salman Rushdie, "Midnight's Children")
- Straight answers were beyond the powers of Rashid Khalifa, who would never take a short cut if there was a longer, twistier road available.
(Salman Rushdie, "Haroun And The Sea Of Stories")
- Most of what matters in our lives takes place in our absence.
(Salman Rushdie, "Midnight's Children")
- The black ice of that dark fortress received the sunlight like a mortal wound.
(Salman Rushdie, "Haroun And The Sea Of Stories")
- Religion was the glue of Pakistan, holding the halves together; just as consciousness, the awareness of oneself as a homogenous entity in time, a blend of past and present, is the glue of personality, holding together our then and our now.
(Salman Rushdie, "Midnight's Children")
- They are the Eggheads. He is the Walrus.
(Salman Rushdie, "Haroun And The Sea Of Stories")
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