“S’il te faut la vitesse et ses enivrements
Prends bien tes précautions et fais ton testament.”
Salman Rushdie Haroun et la mer des histoires
Haroun et la mer des histoires, 1990
Salman Rushdie: 123 citations0 J'aime
Salman Rushdie Citations
Salman Rushdie: Citations en anglais
Salman Rushdie livre Imaginary Homelands
Imaginary Homelands (1992)
Contexte: Those who oppose the novel most vociferously today are of the opinion that intermingling with a different culture will inevitably weaken and ruin their own. I am of the opposite opinion. The Satanic Verses celebrates hybridity, impurity, intermingling, the transformation that comes of new and unexpected combinations of human beings, cultures, ideas, politics, movies, songs. It rejoices in mongrelization and fears the absolutism of the Pure. Melange, hotchpotch, a bit of this and a bit of that is how newness enters the world. It is the great possibility that mass migration gives the world… The Satanic Verses is for change-by-fusion, change-by-conjoining. It is a love song to our mongrel selves.
“Now I know what a ghost is. Unfinished business, that's what.”
Salman Rushdie livre The Satanic Verses
Source: The Satanic Verses
Salman Rushdie livre Midnight's Children
Source: Midnight's Children
“The only people who see the whole picture are the ones who step outside the frame.”
Salman Rushdie The Ground Beneath Her Feet
Source: The Ground Beneath Her Feet (1999)
“How do you defeat terrorism? Don’t be terrorized.”
Source: Step Across This Line: Collected Nonfiction 1992-2002
“What's real and what's true aren't necessarily the same.”
Salman Rushdie livre Midnight's Children
Source: Midnight's Children
“Most of what matters in our lives takes place in our absence.”
Salman Rushdie livre Midnight's Children
Source: Midnight's Children
“Masks beneath masks until suddenly the bare bloodless skull.”
Salman Rushdie livre The Satanic Verses
Source: The Satanic Verses
“The world, somebody wrote, is the place we prove real by dying in it.”
Salman Rushdie livre The Satanic Verses
Source: The Satanic Verses (1988)
Salman Rushdie livre Midnight's Children
Source: Midnight's Children
“What can't be cured must be endured.”
Salman Rushdie livre Midnight's Children
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Part II
Source: Midnight's Children
Salman Rushdie livre The Satanic Verses
Source: The Satanic Verses
“Children are the vessels into which adults pour their poison.”
Salman Rushdie livre Midnight's Children
Source: Midnight's Children (1981)
“We were language's magpies by nature, stealing whatever sounded bright and shiny.”
Salman Rushdie The Ground Beneath Her Feet
Source: The Ground Beneath Her Feet
“To understand just one life, you have to swallow the world.”
Salman Rushdie livre Midnight's Children
Variante: To understand just one life you have to swallow the world... do you wonder, then, that I was a heavy child?
Source: Midnight's Children
“Not all possibilities are open to us. The world is finite; our hopes spill over its rim.”
Salman Rushdie livre The Satanic Verses
Source: The Satanic Verses
“I learned: the first lesson of my life: nobody can face the world with his eyes open all the time.”
Salman Rushdie livre Midnight's Children
Source: Midnight's Children
Salman Rushdie livre The Satanic Verses
Source: The Satanic Verses
“We crave permission openly to become our secret selves.”
Salman Rushdie livre The Moor's Last Sigh
Source: The Moor's Last Sigh
“I want more than what I want. (Vina Apsara)”
Salman Rushdie The Ground Beneath Her Feet
Source: The Ground Beneath Her Feet
“When you throw everything up in the air anything becomes possible.”
Salman Rushdie livre The Satanic Verses
Source: The Satanic Verses
