Salman Rushdie Quotes

However, in the end, the question [remains]: Why him and not the man standing next to him? Why did this person become a terrorist whereas the person standing next to him, suffering all the same privations, having probably all the same political points of view, did not become a terrorist? The answer to that is an old novelistic answer. The answer to that is character .

- Salman Rushdie

Tags

Question | Remains | Standing | Person | Terrorist |

comments powered by Disqus

Random

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

Always do something impossible right at the beginning of the show?. Swallow a sword, tie yourself in a knot, defy gravity. Do what the audience knows it could never do no matter how hard it tries. After that you'll have them eating out of your hand. - Salman Rushdie