Salman Rushdie Quotes - Page 24

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• What grows best in the heat: fantasy; unreason; lust.

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  Lust, Heat, Fantasy

  Salman Rushdie (2010). “Midnight's Children”, p.231, Random House

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• I'm not a very big fan of 'Slumdog Millionaire.' I think it's visually brilliant. But I have problems with the story line. I find the storyline unconvincing.

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  Thinking, Fans, Stories

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• All my adult life, if I didn't have several hours a day to sit in a room by myself, I would get antsy and irritable.

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  Adults, Rooms, Hours

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• I've never read anything so badly written that got published. It made 'Twilight' look like 'War and Peace.'

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  War, Twilight, Looks

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• Khattam-Shud,' he said slowly, 'is the Arch-Enemy of all Stories, even of language itself. He is the Prince of Silence and the Foe of Speech. And because everything ends, because dreams end, stories end, life ends, at the finish of everything we use his name. "It's finished," we tell one another, "it's over. Khattam-Shud: The End.

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  Dream, Names, Silence

  Salman Rushdie (1990). “Haroun and the Sea of Stories”, Penguin Books

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• American literature has always been immigrant.

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  Literature, American Literature, Immigrants

  "Salman Rushdie: the fatwa, Islamic fundamentalism and Joseph Anton". Interview with Stuart Jeffries, www.theguardian.com. September 16, 2012.

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• If bigots behave like bigots, it's not a huge surprise.

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  Surprise, Behave, Bigots

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• Mo Yan is the Chinese equivalent of the Soviet Russian apparatchik writer Mikhail Sholokhov: a patsy of the regime.

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  Chinese, Regimes, Soviet

  "Literary Feuds of 2012" by Rachel Arons, www.newyorker.com. December 30, 2012.

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• It's Kennedy's war, Vietnam. Lyndon Johnson got all the flak, but it's Kennedy's war.

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  War, Vietnam, Johnson

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• I've never yet managed to write a novel which didn't have an Indian central character.

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  Writing, Character, Novel

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• Broad-mindedness is related to tolerance; open-mindedness is the sibling of peace.

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  Sibling, Tolerance, Broads

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• If Turkey wants to join Europe, it will have to become a European country, and that might take a long time.

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  Country, Europe, Turkeys

  "Salman Rushdie: Inside the Mind of Jihadists". Interview with Nathan Gardels, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 25, 2011.

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• Original thought, original artistic expression is by its very nature questioning, irreverent, iconoclastic.

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  Expression, Original Thought, Artistic

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• Rock n' roll was a kid when I was a kid.

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  Kids, Rocks, Rock N Roll

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• Few topographical boundaries can rival the frontiers of the mind.

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  Imagination, Mind, Rivals

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• The field of the novel is very rich. If you're a composer, you're well aware of the history of composition, and you are trying to make your music part of that history. You're not ahistorical. In the same way, I think, if you write now, you are writing in the historical context of what the novel has been and what possibilities it has revealed.

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  Writing, Thinking, Historical

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• The interesting thing about history sometimes. is that you know these people existed, and you knew what jobs they did, but you don't know much about them as people, so you actually have to make them up.

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  Jobs, People, Interesting

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• This paranoid Islam, which blames outsider, 'infidels', for all the ills of Muslim societies, and whose proposed remedy is the closing of those societies to the rival project of modernity, is presently the fastest growing version of Islam in the world.

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  Islam, World, Growing

  Salman Rushdie (2008). “Step Across This Line”, p.218, Random House

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• The act of migration puts into crisis everything about the migrating individual or group, everything about identity and selfhood and culture and belief. So if this is a novel about migration it must be that act of putting in question. It must perform the crisis it describes.

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  Identity, Migration, Groups

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• The thing I really like about Twitter is the speed with which information reaches me. You find out things from Twitter long before they're on the news. That, I think, is valuable.

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  Thinking, Long, News

  "The Art of Bravery: An Interview with Salman Rushdie". Interview with Shaun Randol, lareviewofbooks.org. April 25, 2013.

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• The Koran was revealed at a time of great change in the Arab world, the seventh-century shift from a matriarchal nomadic culture to an urban patriarchal system.

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  Culture, World, Urban

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• ...The lesson [comic books] taught children- or this child, at any rate- was perhaps the unintentionally radical truth that exceptionality was the greatest and most heroic of values; that those who were unlike the crowd were to be treasured the most lovingly; and that this exceptionality was a treasure so great that it had to be concealed, in ordinary life, beneath what the comic books called a 'secret identity'.

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  Children, Book, Secret Identity

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• Home has become such a scattered, damaged, various concept in our present travails. There is so much to yearn for. There are so few rainbows any more.

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  Home, Rainbow, Various

  Salman Rushdie (2014). “East, West: Stories”, p.74, Vintage

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• Thomas Pynchon looks exactly like Thomas Pynchon should look. He is tall, he wears lumberjack shirts and blue jeans. He has Albert Einstein white hair and Bugs Bunny front teeth.

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  Hair, Blue, Jeans

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• The thing about literature is that, yes, there are kind of tides of fashion, you know; people come in and out of fashion; writers who are very celebrated fall into, you know, people you know stop reading them, and then it comes back again.

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  Fashion, Fall, Reading

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