104 ordspråk av Salman Rushdie
Salman Rushdie
 Most of what matters in your life takes place in your absence. |
| Most of what matters in your life takes place in your absence. |
| Names, once they are in common use, quickly become mere sounds, their etymology being buried, like so many of the earth's marvels, beneath the dust of habit. |
| near-segregation from the wider population. |
| Not even the visionary or mystical experience ever lasts very long. It is for art to capture that experience, to offer it to, in the case of literature, its readers; to be, for a secular, materialist culture, some sort of replacement for what the love of god offers in the world of faith. |
| Obviously, it is a very great honor and I'm very pleased to have it, and it's very nice to be recognized for the right reasons, that is my work and writing and things I have dedicated my life to. |
| Oh, I wonder what that might be. |
| One of the extraordinary things about human events is that the unthinkable becomes thinkable. |
| 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. |
| One of us is dead, |
| Our lives are not what we deserve; they are, let us agree, in many ways deficient. |
| Our lives teach us who we are. |
| Reality is a question of perspective; the further you get from the past, the more concrete and plausible it seems -but as you approach the present, it inevitably seems incredible. |
| Rock and roll music - the music of freedom frightens people and unleashes all manner of conservative defense mechanisms |
| Some incredibly important things were being fought for here ... the freedom of the imagination, the great, overwhelming, overarching question of freedom of speech, the right of human beings to walk down the streets of their own country without fear. |
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