Salman Rushdie Quotes

What I was trying to show was the creation of extremely violent individuals from people like you and I... Shalimar was a happy, admired performer whose world was smashed, both inside and out. That double fracture provided the fissure for him to slip through. - Salman Rushdie

What distinguishes a great artist from a weak one is first their sensibility and tenderness; second, their imagination, and third, their industry. - Salman Rushdie

We must conclude that it is not only a particular political ideology that has failed, but the idea that men and women could ever define themselves in terms that exclude their spiritual needs. - Salman Rushdie

Wants the dreadful, wants to stare down the human race's worst-case scenarios. - Salman Rushdie

Vertigo is the conflict between the fear of falling and the desire to fall. - Salman Rushdie

To make convincing such a huge change in a single human life. - Salman Rushdie

Throughout human history, the apostles of purity, those who have claimed to possess a total explanation, have wrought havoc among mere mixed-up human beings. - Salman Rushdie

This looks like it's over. It means everything, it means freedom. - Salman Rushdie

There'll be one track that I like and a lot of it that is just wallpaper and sounds the same. - Salman Rushdie

There were times when you would pick up the phone and have people there saying we know where you live and we are going to get you. But on the whole, it became a way of life and you get used to it. - Salman Rushdie

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