One of the things a writer is for is to say the unsayable, speak the unspeakable and ask difficult questions.
Salman RushdieTag: writing
Good advice Is Rarer Than Rubies
Salman RushdieThe thief’s widow had turned him, before she married him, into a thief of a stupid and terrible kind, because she had made him rob himself.
Salman Rushdie... learning the knack of disconnecting her sense of smell, until she could switch it off like a radio and in the bland silence of its absence could drown in the sound of Nazarébaddoor’s hypnotic voice without having her reverie interrupted by the scent of sheep shit or Nazarébaddoor’s own frequent and extraordinary buffalo farts.
Salman RushdieTag: fart
I, too, have ropes around my neck. I have them to this day, pulling me this way and that, East and West, the nooses tightening, commanding, choose, choose. I buck, I snort, I whinny, I rear, Ikick. Ropes, I do not choose between you. Lassoes, lariats, I choose neither of you, and both. Doyou hear? I refuse to choose.
Salman RushdieThroughout human history, the apostles of purity, those who have claimed to possess a total explanation, have wrought havoc among mere mixed-up human beings. Like many millions of people, I am a bastard child of history. Perhaps we all are, black and brown and white, leaking into one another, as a character of mine once said, like flavours [sic] when you cook
Salman Rushdieمعظم الأشياء المهمة في حياتك تحدث في غيابك
Salman RushdieThings, even people have a way of leaking into each other like flavours when you cook.
Salman RushdieIf by some bizarre chance there turns out to be a god [...], I'm willing to bet he's an atheist too.
Salman RushdieTag: god religion atheism twitter
Don't you know girls have to fool people every day of their lives if they want to get anywhere?
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