The point is always reached after which the gods no longer share their lives with mortal men and women, they die or wither away or retire... Now that they've gone, the high drama's over. What remains is ordinary human life.
Salman RushdieWe, the living, must find what space we can alongside them; the giant dead whom we cannot tie down, though we grasp at their hair, though we rope them while they sleep
Salman RushdieWe were language's magpies by nature, stealing whatever sounded bright and shiny.
Salman RushdieLanguage is courage: the ability to conceive a thought, to speak it, and by doing so to make it true.
Salman RushdieWhen a reader falls in love with a book, it leaves its essence inside him, like radioactive fallout in an arable field, and after that there are certain crops that will no longer grow in him, while other, stranger, more fantastic growths may occasionally be produced."
[Books vs. Goons, L.A. Times, April 24, 2005]
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a simple dream, set in a city park, along an avenue of mature elms, whose overarching branches turned the avenue into a green tunnel into which the sky and the sunlight were dripping, here and there, through the perfect imperfections in the canopy of leaves.
Salman RushdieTags: imagery
One minute you've got a lucky star watching over you and the next instant it's done a bunk.
Salman RushdieI want more than what I want. (Vina Apsara)
Salman RushdieOnce the god-squaddie supreme, she was now possessed of the zeal of the apostate and came on like an atheistic stormtrooper.
Salman RushdieOur lives disconnect and reconnect, we move on, and later we may again touch one another, again bounce away. This is the felt shape of a human life, neither simply linear nor wholly disjunctive nor endlessly bifurcating, but rather this bouncey-castle sequence of bumpings-into and tumblings-apart.
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