Salman Rushdie Quotes About Memories

Quotes about: Memories

• Memory has its own special kind. It selects, eliminates, alters, exaggerates, minimizes, glorifies, and vilifies also; but in the end it creates its own reality, its heterogeneous but usually coherent version of events; and no sane human being ever trusts someone else's version more than his own.

  Salman Rushdie

  Memories, Reality, Special

  Salman Rushdie (2010). “Midnight's Children”, p.292, Random House

• Our human tragedy is that we are unable to comprehend our experience, it slips through our fingers, we can't hold on to it, and the more time passes, the harder it gets...My father said that the natural world gave us explanations to compensate for the meanings we could not grasp. The slant of the cold sunlight on a winter pine, the music of water, an oar cutting the lake and the flight of birds, the mountains' nobility , the silence of the silence. We are given life but must accept that it is unattainable and rejoice in what can be held in the eye, the memory, the mind.

  Salman Rushdie

  Memories, Father, Eye

• I fell victim to the temptation of every autobiographer, to the illusion that since the past exists only in one's memories and the words which strive vainly to encapsulate them, it is possible to create past events simply by saying they occurred.

  Salman Rushdie

  Memories, Past, Temptation

• ...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.

  Salman Rushdie

  Memories, Imperfection, Shadow

  Salman Rushdie (2010). “Midnight's Children”, p.642, Random House

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