Straight answers were beyond the powers of Rashid Khalifa, who would never take a short cut if there was a longer, twistier road available.
Salman RushdieA figure of speech is a shifty thing; it can be twisted or it can be straight.
Salman RushdieTags: figure-of-speech
Children are the vessels into which adults pour their poison.
Salman RushdieI have been a swallower of lives; and to know me, just the one of me, you'll have to swallow the lot as well.
Salman RushdieFamily history, of course, has its proper dietary laws. One is supposed to swallow and digest only the permitted parts of it, the halal portions of the past, drained of their redness, their blood. Unfortunately, this makes the stories less juicy...
Salman RushdieI have been so-many too-many persons; life, unlike syntax, allows one more than three.
Salman RushdieMy heart broke open and history fell in.
Salman RushdiePeople don't like being around despair. Our tolerance for the truly hopeless, for those who are irredeemably broken by life is strictly limited. The sob stories we like are the ones that end before we're bored.
Salman RushdieWhen we stop believing in gods we can start believing in their stories, I retort. There are of course no such things as miracles, but if there were and so tomorrow we woke up to find no more believers on earth, no more devout Christians, Muslims, Hindus, Jews, why then, sure the beauty of the stories would be a thing we could focus on because they wouldn't be dangerous any more, they would become capable of compelling the only belief that leads to truth, that is, the willing, disbelieving of the reader in a well-told tale.
Salman RushdieYou'll say things all wrong but they'll at once become American ways of saying things. You won't know shit but it'll right away become an American type of ignorance. Not belonging, that's an old American tradition, see?, that's the American way.
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