Salman Rushdie Quotes
Forget the soul. No such ghost in the machine. What happens to our mind befalls our body also. The condition of the body is also the state of the mind.
The only people who see the whole picture are the ones who step outside the frame.
A race that rejected the idea of personal sacrifice would surely be erased from time's records before long.
Those who do not have power over the story that dominates their lives, power to retell it, to rethink it, deconstruct it, joke about it, and change it as times change, truly are powerless.
Many of us persons of the tinted persuasion care about human rights and artistic freedom too.
She has vivid pictures of Hell. It is as hot as Rajputana in June and everyone is made to learn seven foreign languages . . .
The ruthlessness of the godly invalidated their claims of virtue.
I should never have dreamed of purpose, I am coming to the conclusion that privacy, the small individual lives of men, are preferable to all this inflated macrocosmic activity.
OK, publishing a book and releasing a movie is all very well, but Tottenham beating Man. U. 3-2... priceless.
How do you behave when you win? When your enemies are at your mercy and your power has become absolute: what then?
There's a lot of conflict and darkness inside everybody's family. We all pretend to outsiders that it's not so, but behind locked doors, there are usually high emotions running.
I don't like books that seem to want to teach me things. Which is not to say that one doesn't learn from books - but you do your own learning in your own way.
