Realism can break a writer's heart. Auteur: Salman Rushdie Copy Quote More from Salman Rushdie “To be born again,' sang Gibreal Farishta tumbling from the heaveans, 'first you…” “Everest silences you...when you come down, nothing seems worth saying, nothing …” “O my vanity I am an arrogant man, is this weakness, is it just a dream of power…” “Keep away from her," said Ameer Merchant, but once the inexorable dynamic of th…”