Salman Rushdie Quotes About Dreams

Quotes about: Dreams

• Go for broke. Always try and do too much. Dispense with safety nets. Take a deep breath before you begin talking. Aim for the stars. Keep grinning. Be bloody-minded. Argue with the world. And never forget that writing is as close as we get to keeping a hold on the thousand and one things--childhood, certainties, cities, doubts, dreams, instants, phrases, parents, loves--that go on slipping , like sand, through our fingers.

  Salman Rushdie

  Dream, Stars, Writing

  Salman Rushdie, Michael Reder (2000). “Conversations with Salman Rushdie”, p.11, Univ. Press of Mississippi

• Exile is a dream of a glorious return. Exile is a vision of revolution: Elba, not St Helena. It is an endless paradox: looking forward by always looking back. The exile is a ball hurled high into the air.

  Salman Rushdie

  Dream, Air, Vision

  Salman Rushdie (1989). “The Satanic Verses”, New York, N.Y. : Viking

• Among the great struggles of man-good/evil, reason/unreason, etc.-there is also this mighty conflict between the fantasy of Home and the fantasy of Away, the dream of roots and the mirage of the journey.

  Salman Rushdie

  Dream, Struggle, Home

  Salman Rushdie (2000). “The Ground Beneath Her Feet: A Novel”, p.55, Macmillan

• A man who invents himself needs someone to believe in him... Not only the need to be believed in, but the need to believe in another. You've got it: Love.

  Salman Rushdie

  Love, Dream, Believe

  Salman Rushdie (1989). “The Satanic Verses”, New York, N.Y. : Viking

• He would dream of discovering a magic optometrist from whom he would purchase a pair of green-tinged spectacles which would correct his regrettable myopia, and after that he would be able to see through the dense, blinding air to the fabulous world beneath.

  Salman Rushdie

  Dream, Air, Magic

  Salman Rushdie (1989). “The Satanic Verses”, New York, N.Y. : Viking

• Khattam-Shud,' he said slowly, 'is the Arch-Enemy of all Stories, even of language itself. He is the Prince of Silence and the Foe of Speech. And because everything ends, because dreams end, stories end, life ends, at the finish of everything we use his name. "It's finished," we tell one another, "it's over. Khattam-Shud: The End.

  Salman Rushdie

  Dream, Names, Silence

  Salman Rushdie (1990). “Haroun and the Sea of Stories”, Penguin Books

• In the waking dreams our societies permit, in our myths, our arts, our songs, we celebrate the nonbelongers, the different ones, the outlaws, the freaks.

  Salman Rushdie

  Dream, Song, Art

  Salman Rushdie (2000). “The Ground Beneath Her Feet: A Novel”, p.73, Macmillan

• If terrorism is to be defeated, the world of Islam must take on board the secularist-humanist principles on which the modern is based, and without which their countries' freedom will remain a distant dream.

  Salman Rushdie

  Dream, Country, Islam

  Salman Rushdie (2008). “Step Across This Line”, p.219, Random House

• We all dream things into being; you imagine yourself having a child, and then you have a child. An inventor will think of something in his mind and then make it actual. So things are often passing from the imagined realm into the real world.

  Salman Rushdie

  Dream, Children, Real

• The world is about the way in which our dreams intersect with our real life. Endlessly, the world of the imagination changes the world.

  Salman Rushdie

  Dream, Real, Imagination

  Interview with Terry Gilliam, www.believermag.com. March 2003.

• I am gagged and imprisoned. I can't even speak. I want to kick a football in a park with my son. Ordinary, banal life: my impossible dream.

  Salman Rushdie

  Football, Dream, Son

  Salman Rushdie (2012). “Joseph Anton”, p.170, Random House

• You've got a generation of young men - almost all are young men - in situations of great economic hardship, where they don't really have work. The chances of them making a decent life for themselves, of making a family, living in a kind of decent, happy way, are very, very remote. It's very hard for them to ever even have that as a dream, so when people are that deprived of the ordinary hope of human beings, it creates anger. And that anger can be channeled by unscrupulous persons, whether secular or religious leaders, and there's been a lot of that.

  Salman Rushdie

  Dream, Religious, Men

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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