109 ordspråk av Salman Rushdie

Salman Rushdie

Salman Rushdie föddes den 19 juni 1947
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The exclusion of Professor Ramadan illustrates that the Patriot Act and other post-9/11 laws and policies may be serving to increase American isolation at a time when international dialogue is more critical than ever.

The people in India do not think of the gods as abstractions. They think of them as real beings who move amongst them and work upon their lives every day. If you have something that you need, if somebody is sick, if a child needs to get into college or whatever it may be, you would go and find the relevant deity to make the offering to and you would believe that that would increase your chances of getting what you needed in life.

I haven't seen the book, I have seen the passages that were compared between the two books, I must say I don't accept the idea that this could have been accidentally or innocently done. The passages are too many and the similarities are too extensive.

Both are responsible. But I know when I write a book it's my name on the book, so I stand or fall by what I sign. And so must she.

The Ballad of Lee Cotton.

What is needed is a move beyond tradition -- nothing less than a reform movement to bring the core concepts of Islam into the modern age.

The spirit of my grandfather came to infuse the spirit of the place.

[He was also] the most tolerant, open-minded, intellectually generous, nonjudgmental adult that I ever met as a child, ... the spirit of my grandfather came to infuse the spirit of the place.

the former colonial powers were drawing lines all over the world. And many of the ills of the world since then are the consequence of those acts.

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

I have a deep feeling for Kashmir, and I just had to write this book, ... [But] it's very hard to write about real events. It becomes unbearable. The challenge in writing this book was: how do you write about these things bearably without sweetening the pill?

One of the strange things that happens when you publish a book is that you begin ... to see what resonances it has for the readers, ... Sometimes you begin to understand your book a bit more.

That's the sadness of Kashmir,

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.

I came as a writer to be very interested in the questions of the borderlines, of the boundaries, ... Great literature doesn't happen when there is no risk. It happens at the edges.

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