Salman Rushdie Quotes About Past

Quotes about: Past

• 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 more and more incredible.

  Salman Rushdie

  Time, Past, Reality

  Salman Rushdie (2010). “Midnight's Children”, p.229, Random House

• It may be argued that the past is a country from which we have all emigrated, that its loss is part of our common humanity.

  Salman Rushdie

  Country, Loss, Past

  Salman Rushdie (2017). “Home: Vintage Minis”, p.27, Random House

• 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

• 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

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