Religion was the glue of Pakistan, holding the halves together; just as consciousness, the awareness of oneself as a homogenous entity in time, a blend of past and present, is the glue of personality, holding together our then and our now.
Salman RushdieTo understand just one life, you have to swallow the world.
Salman RushdieWhat you were is forever who you are.
Salman RushdieWhy, alone of all the more-than-five-hundred-million, should I have to bear the burden of history?
Salman RushdieIndia, the new myth--a collective fiction in which anything was possible, a fable rivalled only by the two other mighty fantasies: money and God.
Salman Rushdie...proving once again that there was no escape from recurrence.
Salman Rushdie...in words and pickles, I have immortalized my memories, although distortions are inevitable in both methods. We must live, I'm afraid, with the shadows of imperfections.
Salman RushdieI fell victim to the temptation of every autobiographer, to the illusion that since the past exists only in one's memories and the words which strive vainly to encapsulate them, it is possible to create past events simply by saying they occurred.
Salman RushdieThe process of revision should be constant and endless
Salman Rushdieoptimism is a disease
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