A man who catches History's eye is thereafter bound to a mistress from whom he will never escape.
Salman RushdieI am the sum total of everything that went before me, of all I have been seen done, of everything done-to-me. I am everyone everything whose being-in-the-world affected was affected by mine. I am anything that happens after I've gone which would not have happened if I had not come. Nor am I particularly exceptional in this matter; each 'I', every one of the now-six-hundred-million-plus of us, contains a similar multitude. I repeat for the last time: to understand me, you'll have to swallow a world.
Salman RushdieThe beautiful came to this city [Hollywood] in huge pathetic herds, to suffer, to be humiliated, to see the powerful currency of their beauty devalued like the Russian ruble or Argentine peso;to work as bellhops, as bar hostesses, as garbage collectors, as maids. The city was a cliff and they were its stampeding lemmings. At the foot of the cliff was the valley of the broken dolls.
Salman RushdieVertigo is the conflict between the fear of falling and the desire to fall.
Salman RushdieWhy obliterate the exceptional merely in order to make the outstanding look finer than it was?
Salman RushdieThe actor's life offers, on a daily basis, the simulacrum of love; a mask can be satisfied, or at least consoled, by the echo of what it seeks.
Salman RushdieTags: actors
We strive for heights bit our natures betray us, Chamcha thought; clowns in search of crowns. The bitterness overcame him
Salman RushdiePerhaps the story you finish is never the one you begin.
Salman Rushdiefaith without doubt is addiction
Salman RushdieBeing God's postman is no fun, yar.
Butbutbut: God isn't in this picture.
God knows whose postman I've been.
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