1,092 Quotes by Salman Rushdie

-Mie ar trebui să îmi fie rușine, îl informă el pe un porumbel cocoțat pe marginea ferestrei. Stau aici, făcând ceea ce critic, cu gândurile Dumnezeu știe unde, trăind prea mult în imaginație.

In a Bombay street an urchin was distributing business cards. He took one. 'Are you alcohol?' it read. 'We can help. Call this number for liquor home delivery.'Excellent business model, he thought.

A man who catches History's eye is thereafter bound to a mistress from whom he will never escape.

We walk unknowing amid the shadows of our past and, forgetting our history, are ignorant of ourselves.

Systems of thought, and their antitheses as well, are merely codifications of what we think we know. When we begin to abandon them, we open ourselves to the immensity of the universe, and therefore also to immense possibilities, including the possibility of the impossible.

Normal doesn't feel so normal to me," I tell him. "It's normal to feel that way," he replies.

But the truth was that she still felt the past moving like a thrombosis in the blood. It might reach her heart and kill her one of these days.

The system is corrupt," a young man on a bicycle shouted, "and if it cannot be changed it must be destroyed. The mastodon revolution is here and you must all choose which side of history you want to be on.

We, the public, are easily, lethally offended. We have come to think of taking offence as a fundamental right. We value very little more highly than our rage, which gives us, in our opinion, the moral high ground. From this high ground we can shoot down at our enemies and inflict heavy fatalities. We take pride in our short fuses. Our anger elevates, transcends.