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“People don't like being around despair. Our tolerance for the truly hopeless, for those who are irredeemably broken by life is strictly limited. The sob stories we like are the ones that end before we're bored.”

Salman Rushdie The Ground Beneath Her Feet

Source: The Ground Beneath Her Feet

“Nobody can judge an internal injury by the size of the superficial wound.”

Salman Rushdie book The Satanic Verses

Variant: You can't judge an internal injury by the size of the hole.
Source: The Satanic Verses

“My heart broke open and history fell in.”

Salman Rushdie The Ground Beneath Her Feet

Source: The Ground Beneath Her Feet

“Between shame and shamelessness lies the axis upon which we turn; meteorological conditions at both these poles are of the most extreme, ferocious type. Shamelessness, shame: the roots of violence.”

Salman Rushdie Shame

Source: Shame

“What grows best in the heat: fantasy; unreason; lust.”

Salman Rushdie book Midnight's Children

Source: Midnight's Children

“If love is a yearning to be like (even to become) the beloved, then hatred, it must be said, can be engendered by the same ambition, when it cannot be fulfilled.”

Salman Rushdie book The Satanic Verses

Source: The Satanic Verses

“The inevitable triumph of illusion over reality that was the single most obvious truth about the history of the human race.”

Salman Rushdie book Shalimar the Clown

Source: Shalimar the Clown

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

Salman Rushdie Shame

Source: Shame

“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 Rushdie book The Satanic Verses

Source: The Satanic Verses

“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 Fury

Source: Fury

“A little bit of one story joins onto an idea from another, and hey presto,… not old tales but new ones. Nothing comes from nothing.”

Salman Rushdie Haroun and the Sea of Stories

Source: Haroun and the Sea of Stories

“Sometimes we feel we straddle two cultures; at other times, that we fall between two stools.”

Salman Rushdie

Source: Imaginary Homelands: Essays and Criticism 1981-1991

“everything is relative, one man’s absolute belief is another man’s fairy tale;”

Salman Rushdie book Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights

Source: Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights

“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 Rushdie book The Enchantress of Florence

Source: The Enchantress of Florence

“Life is lived forward but is judged in reverse.”

Salman Rushdie book Joseph Anton: A Memoir

Source: Joseph Anton: A Memoir

“I 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 Rushdie book Midnight's Children

Source: Midnight's Children

“Wherever goodness lay, it did not lie in ritual, unthinking obeisance before a deity but rather, perhaps, in the slow clumsy, error-strewn working out of an individual or collective path.”

Salman Rushdie book The Enchantress of Florence

Source: The Enchantress of Florence

“This may be the curse of human race. Not that we are different from one anther, but we are so alike.”

Salman Rushdie book The Enchantress of Florence

Source: The Enchantress of Florence