Salman Rushdie Quotes About Journey

Quotes about: Journey

• 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

• All migrants leave their pasts behind, although some try to pack it into bundles and boxes-but on the journey something seeps out of the treasured mementoes and old photographs, until even their owners fail to recognize them, because it is the fate of migrants to be stripped of history, to stand naked amidst the scorn of strangers upon whom they see rich clothing, the brocades of continuity and the eyebrows of belonging.

  Salman Rushdie

  Fate, Past, Journey

• Rohinton Mistry's celebrated novel 'Such a Long Journey' was pulled off the syllabus of Mumbai University because local extremists objected to its content.

  Salman Rushdie

  Journey, Long, Mumbai

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