Nobody can judge an internal injury by the size of the superficial wound.
Salman RushdieBe so good as to cease to cast yourself in fictions. Pinch yourself, or slap yourself across the face if that's what it takes, but understand, please, that you are nonfictional, and this is real life.
Salman RushdieOnly the foolish, blinded by language's conventions, think of fire as red or gold. Fire is blue at its melancholy rim, green in its envious heart. It may burn white, or even, in its greatest rages, black.
Salman RushdieTags: fiction short-stories
As though she had entered a fable, as though she were no more than words crawling along a dry page, or as though she were becoming that page itself, that surface on which her story would be written and across which there blew a hot and merciless wind, turning her body to papyrus, her skin to parchment, her soul to paper.
Salman RushdieTags: fiction short-story
You can get anywhere in Pakistan if you know people, even into jail.
Salman RushdieEasily found, easily gathered, lives were the small change of this world, and if you lost a few, it didn't matter; there were always more.
Salman RushdieTags: king-of-wordplay
For an instant, silence, noisier than a waterfall.
Salman Rushdie...because silence, too, has an echo, hollower and longer-lasting than the reverberations of any sound.
Salman RushdieThe self may be royal, but it hungers like a pauper. [...] And it is a king imperilled, a sovereign forever at the mercy of many insurgents, of fear, for example, and anxiety, of isolation and bewilderment, of a strange unspeakable pride and a wild, silent shame. The self is beset by secrets, secrets eat at it constantly, secrets will tear down its kingdom and leave its sceptre broken in the dust.
Salman RushdieTags: self-esteem
This may be the curse of human race . Not that we are different from one anther , but we are so alike .
Salman RushdieTags: humankind
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