Quotes by Salman Rushdie

Salman Rushdie

…in words and pickles, I have immortalized my memories, although distortions are inevitable in both methods. We must live, I’m afraid, with the shadows of imperfections.

Imperfection

Memories

Shadow

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…The lesson [comic books] taught children- or this child, at any rate- was perhaps the unintentionally radical truth that exceptionality was the greatest and most heroic of values; that those who were unlike the crowd were to be treasured the most lovingly; and that this exceptionality was a treasure so great that it had to be concealed, in ordinary life, beneath what the comic books called a ‘secret identity’.

Book

Children

Secret Identity

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‘The Satanic Verses’ was denied the ordinary life of a novel. It became something smaller and uglier: an insult.

Insult

Ordinary

Satanic

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‘Respect for religion’ has become a code phrase meaning ‘fear of religion.’ Religions, like all other ideas, deserve criticism, satire, and, yes, our fearless disrespect.

Ideas

Inspirational

Life

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[…] the inevitable triumph of illusion over reality that was the single most obvious truth about the history of the human race […]

Race

Reality

Triumph

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[My work] is a love song to our mongrel selves.

Self

Song

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A book is a product of a pact with the Devil that inverts the Faustian contract, he’d told Allie. Dr Faustus sacrificed eternity in return for two dozen years of power; the writer agrees to the ruination of his life, and gains (but only if he’s lucky) maybe not eternity, but posterity, at least. Either way (this was Jumpy’s point) it’s the Devil who wins.

Book

Winning

Years

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A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it; or offer your own version in return.

Book

Reading

Writing

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A book is not completed till it’s read.

Book

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A figure of speech is a shifty thing; it can be twisted or it can be straight.

Figures

Speech

Twisted

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