Salman Rushdie Quotes

Biography: Salman Rushdie is known for his controversial and critically acclaimed... more Biography: Salman Rushdie is known for his controversial and critically acclaimed novels, most notably "Midnight's Children" and "The Satanic Verses." Born in India and living in multiple countries, his work often blends historical fiction with magical realism. Rushdie faced a fatwa for "The Satanic Verses," impacting his life and work significantly. less

"The opposite of a fact is falsehood, but the opposite of one profound truth may very well be another profound truth.""Theatre of the absurd was getting a new currency as the anti-austerity movement started up against the backdrop of global economic fracture. ""You can’t shut fear out. But you can know it. And you can talk to it and say, 'I'm going to go around you'.""One of the malfunctions of literary criticism is that it tends to create clothing patterns and then cut these patterns up to create garments. But that’s destroyed the books.""Man is the storytelling animal.""No, it's not more competition you need, it's less. It's cooperation. We should be reminded that not everything is judged by market forces. The really important things, even today, even now, cannot be bought and sold.""Books choose their authors; the act of creation is not entirely a rational and conscious one.""Great art shapes the world, and people recognise themselves in it, and find it changed for that moment.""What is reprehensible is people who... tell you there are limits and that you can't do this or that. These are the people who when you say you can think freely, say it's only thinkable up to a certain point.""The moment you say that any idea system is sacred, whether it's a religious belief system or a secular ideology, the moment you declare a set of ideas to be immune from criticism, satire, derision or contempt, freedom of thought becomes impossible.""Fundamentalism isn't about religion, it's about power.""To be free, you had not only to escape from a rope or a chain. You had to escape from a way of thinking because freedom was not about taking off your chains.""How to defeat terrorism? Don't be terrorized. Don't let fear rule your life. Even if you are scared.""One of the strange things about old beliefs is that they are, as a rule, robust ""The story is everything, which means that it's always something of an adventure to tell it""The real risks for any artist are taken... in the work""A world without stories would be a world without love""Literature is where I go to explore the highest and lowest places in human society and in the human spirit, where I hope to find not absolute truth but the truth of the tale, of the imagination and of the heart""Memory's truth is to desire""Most of what matters in our lives takes place in our absence"

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