Too many people spouting too many words, and in the end those words will turn to bullets and stones.
Salman RushdieOur lives, our stories, flowed into one another's, were no longer our own, individual, discrete.
Salman RushdieWhen you throw everything up in the air anything becomes possible.
Salman RushdieTag: possibility
William the Conqueror, it is said, began by eating a mouthful of English sand.
Salman RushdieTag: beginning conquering first-step
I know that when people pull apart, they usually employ misunderstanding as a weapon, deliberately getting hold of the stick's wrong end, impaling themselves on its point in order to prove the perfidy of the other.
Salman Rushdie...what a leveller this remote-control gizmo was...it chopped down the heavyweight and stretched out the slight until all the set's emissions, commercials, murders, game-shows, the thousand and one varying joys and terrors of the real and the imagined, acquired an equal weight...
Salman RushdieTag: media salman-rushdie the-satanic-verses issue-importance
Keep away from her," said Ameer Merchant, but once the inexorable dynamic of the mythic has been set in motion, you might as well try and keep bees from honey, crooks from money, politicians from babies, philosophers from maybes. Vina had her hooks in me, and the consequence was the story of my life.
Salman RushdieNo people whose word for 'yesterday' is the same as their word for 'tomorrow' can be said to have a firm grip on the time.
Salman RushdieTag: humor past future time india
This was what was left of a human individual when you took away his home,his family, his friends, his city, his country,his world: a being without context, whose past had faded, whose future was bleak, an entity stripped of name, of meaning,of the whole of life except a temporarily beating heart.
Salman RushdieCan one drown in one's element... If fish can drown in water, can human beings suffocate in air?
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