A people that has remained convinced of its greatness and invulnerability, that has chosen to believe such a myth in the face of all the evidence, is a people in the grip of a kind of sleep, or madness.
Salman RushdieHow do you defeat terrorism? Don’t be terrorized.
Salman RushdieTag: freedom serenity courage stoicism terrorism civil-society
I admit it: above all things, I fear absurdity.
Salman RushdieWhat's the use of stories that aren't even true?
Salman RushdieTag: stories
Travel was pointless. It removed you from the place in which you had a meaning, and to which you gave meaning in return by dedicating your life to it, and it spirited you away into fairylands where you were, and looked, frankly absurd.
Salman RushdieHistory could claw upward as well as down. The powerful could be deafened by the cries of the poor.
Salman RushdieOnce you have been in an earthquake you know, even if you survive without a scratch, that like a stroke in the heart, it remains in the earth's breast, horribly potential, always promising to return, to hit you again, with an even more devastating force.
Salman RushdieTag: earthquake
A photograph is a moral decision taken in one eighth of a second.
Salman RushdieTag: photography
In the home of this music, alas, religious fanatics have lately started killing the musicians. They think the music is an insult to god, who gave us voices but does not wish us to sing, who gave us free will, rai, but prefers us not to be free.
Salman RushdieIn spite of all evidence that life is discontinuous, a valley of rifts, and that random chance plays a great part in our fates, we go on believing in the continuity of things, in causation and meaning. But we live on a broken mirror, and fresh cracks appear in its surface every day.
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