Feel Quotes

Memory is a way of telling you what's important to you.

Salman Rushdie

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

Salman Rushdie

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Vertigo is the conflict between the fear of falling and the desire to fall.

Salman Rushdie

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I accept there are people out there who don't like me. I don't like them.

Salman Rushdie

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Books choose their authors; the act of creation is not entirely a rational and conscious one.

Salman Rushdie

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One of the extraordinary things about human events is that the unthinkable becomes thinkable.

Salman Rushdie

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In this world without quiet corners, there can be no easy escapes from history, from hullabaloo, from terrible, unquiet fuss.

Salman Rushdie

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'The Satanic Verses' was denied the ordinary life of a novel. It became something smaller and uglier: an insult.

Salman Rushdie

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I had a very difficult relationship with my father, which ended up okay, but there were many difficult years.

Salman Rushdie

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A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it; or offer your own version in return.

Salman Rushdie

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The only way of living in a free society is to feel that you have the right to say and do stuff.

Salman Rushdie

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I've always prided myself on my discipline as a writer. I do it like a job. I get up in the morning and go to my desk.

Salman Rushdie

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You don't that often see writers being sought out when there are matters of great moment to discuss. And I think that's a loss.

Salman Rushdie

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It's so disappointing, to put it mildly, that people know so much about my life. Because it means that they're always trying to look at my books in terms of my life.

Salman Rushdie

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What happened in Pakistan was that people were told: You're all Muslim, so now you're a country. As we saw in 1971 with the Bangladesh secession, the answer to that was: 'Oh no, we're not.'

Salman Rushdie

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When 'Midnight's Children' came out, people in the West tended to respond to the fantasy elements in the novel, to praise it in those terms. In India, people read it like a history book.

Salman Rushdie

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Many of us didn't believe in the image of bin Laden as a wandering Old Man of the Mountains, living on plants and insects in an inhospitable cave somewhere on the porous Pakistan-Afghan border.

Salman Rushdie

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There are two things in Indian history - one is the incredible optimism and potential of the place, and the other is the betrayal of that potential - for example, corruption. Those two strands intertwine through the whole of Indian history, and maybe not just Indian history.

Salman Rushdie

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If you take a look at history, you will find that the understanding of what is good and evil has always existed before the individual religions. The religions were only invented by people afterwards, in order to express this idea.

Salman Rushdie

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The accidents of my life have given me the ability to make stories in which different parts of the world are brought together, sometimes harmoniously, sometimes in conflict, and sometimes both - usually both. The difficulty in these stories is that if you write about everywhere you can end up writing about nowhere.

Salman Rushdie

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In an ideal world, you could reunite the Pakistan-occupied part of Kashmir with the Indian-occupied part and restore the old borders. You could have both India and Pakistan agreeing to guarantee those borders, demilitarise the area, and to invest in it economically. In a sane world that would happen, but we don't live in a sane world.

Salman Rushdie

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