Literature is disputed territory.
Salman RushdieI allowed myself the supernatural, the transcendent, because, I told myself, our love of metaphor is pre-religious, born of our need to express what is inexpressible, our dreams of otherness, of more.
Salman RushdieChildren get food shelter pocket money longholidays and love, all of it apparently free gratis, and most of the little fools think it's a sort of compensation for having been born. 'There are no strings on me!' They sang; but I, pinnoccio, saw the strings. Parents are impelled by the profit motive - nothing more, nothing less. For their attentions, they expected, from me, the immense dividend of greatness.
Salman RushdieTags: greatness parents children life-purpose
Life again refused to remain lifesized
Salman RushdieTags: life
Is history to be considered the property of the participants only?
Salman RushdieMost people define themselves by their work, or where they come from, or suchlike; we had lived too far inside our heads. It makes actuality damn hard to handle.
Salman RushdieThe world is not ideas, rich kid, the world is things. If you have things, you have time to dream, if you don't... You'll fight.
Salman RushdieMr. Gibreel Farishta on the railway to London was once again seized as who would not be by the fear that God had decided to punish him for his loss of faith by driving him insane.
Salman RushdieYes, they will trample me underfoot, the numbers marching one two three, four hundred million five hundred six, reducing me to specks of voiceless dust, just as, in all good time, they will trample my son who is not my son, and his son who will not be his, and his who will not be his, until the thousand and first generation, until a thousand and one midnights have bestowed their terrible gifts and a thousand and one children have died, because it is the privilege and the curse of midnight’s children to be both masters and victims of their times, to forsake privacy and be sucked into the annihilating whirlpool of the multitudes, and to be unable to live or die in peace.
Salman RushdieMany of us persons of the tinted persuasion care about human rights and artistic freedom too.
Salman RushdieTags: racism human-rights freedom-of-expression cultural-relativism 1994
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