Salman Rushdie Quotes About Myth

Quotes about: Myth

• India, the new myth--a collective fiction in which anything was possible, a fable rivalled only by the two other mighty fantasies: money and God.

  Salman Rushdie

  Two, Fables, India

  Salman Rushdie (2010). “Midnight's Children”, p.150, Random House

• Sometimes legends make reality, and become more useful than the facts.

  Salman Rushdie

  Reality, Legends, Facts

• A people that has remained convinced of its greatness and invulnerability, that has chosen to believe such a myth in the face of all the evidence, is a people in the grip of a kind of sleep, or madness.

  Salman Rushdie

  Believe, Sleep, Greatness

  "The Satanic Verses". Book by Salman Rushdie, September, 1988.

• 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

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