Salman Rushdie Quotes About Reality

Quotes about: Reality

• 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

• Reality is a question of perspective.

  Salman Rushdie

  Reality, Perspective

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

• The acceptance that all that is solid has melted into the air, that reality and morality are not givens but imperfect human constructs, is the point from which fiction begins.

  Salman Rushdie

  Acceptance, Reality, Air

  Salman Rushdie (1990). “Is nothing sacred?”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

• 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

• How to forgive the world for its beauty, which merely disguises its ugliness; for its gentleness, which merely cloaks its cruelty; for its illusion of continuity, seamlessly, as the night follows the day, so to speak- whereas in reality life is a series of brutal raptures, falling upon your defenseless hands, like the blows of a woodman's axe?

  Salman Rushdie

  Life, Fall, Blow

• I do not need the idea of God to explain the world I live in.

  Salman Rushdie

  Reality, Ideas, Religion

• [...] the inevitable triumph of illusion over reality that was the single most obvious truth about the history of the human race [...]

  Salman Rushdie

  Reality, Race, Triumph

  "Shalimar the Clown". Book by Salman Rushdie, books.google.ru. October 23, 2008.

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

  Salman Rushdie

  Reality, Legends, Facts

• Most of what matters in your life takes place in your absence.

  Salman Rushdie

  Reality, What Matters, Absence

  1981 Midnight's Children,'Alpha and Omega', bk.2.

• I have been only the humblest jugglers-with-facts; and that, in a country where the truth is what it is instructed to be, reality quite literally ceases to exist, so that everything becomes possible except what we are told is the case; and maybe this was the difference between my Indian childhood and Pakistani adolescence--that in the first I was beset by an infinity of alternative realities, while in the second I was adrift, disoriented, amid an equally infinite number of falsenesses, unrealities and lies.

  Salman Rushdie

  Country, Lying, Reality

• A man is sane only to the extent that he subscribes to a previously-agreed construction of reality.

  Salman Rushdie

  Reality, Men, Construction

• I think it's a very important function of art to challenge accepted reality, especially when that reality is created by powerful interest groups.

  Salman Rushdie

  Art, Powerful, Reality

  Source: articles.chicagotribune.com

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