“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
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Salman Rushdie Haroun et la mer des histoires
Source: Haroun and the Sea of Stories
Salman Rushdie Haroun et la mer des histoires
Source: Haroun and the Sea of Stories
“I admit it: above all things, I fear absurdity.”
Salman Rushdie livre Midnight's Children
Source: Midnight's Children
Salman Rushdie livre Midnight's Children
Source: Midnight's Children
“What you were is forever who you are.”
Salman Rushdie livre Midnight's Children
Source: Midnight's Children
“For every snake, there is a ladder; for every ladder, a snake”
Salman Rushdie livre Midnight's Children
Source: Midnight's Children
"Imaginary Homelands (1992)
Source: Imaginary Homelands: Essays and Criticism 1981-1991
Contexte: It may be argued that the past is a country from which we have all emigrated, that its loss is part of our common humanity. Which seems to be self-evidently true; but I suggest that the writer who is out-of-country and even out-of-language may experience this loss in an intensified form. It is made more concrete for him by the physical fact of discontinuity, of his present being in a different place from his past, of his being "elsewhere"… human beings do not perceive things whole; we are not gods but wounded creatures, cracked lenses, capably only of fractured perceptions. Partial beings, in all the senses of that phrase. Meaning is a shaky edifice we build out of scraps, dogmas, childhood injuries, newspaper articles, chance remarks, old films, small victories, people hated, people loved; perhaps it is because of our sense of what is the case is constructed from such inadequate materials that we defend it so fiercely, even to the death.
“The lessons one learns at school are not always the ones the school thinks it's teaching.”
Salman Rushdie livre Joseph Anton: A Memoir
Source: Joseph Anton: A Memoir
“Everything has shape, if you look for it. There is no escape from form.”
Salman Rushdie livre Midnight's Children
Source: Midnight's Children
Salman Rushdie livre Midnight's Children
Source: Midnight's Children
Salman Rushdie Haroun et la mer des histoires
Source: Haroun and the Sea of Stories
Salman Rushdie livre The Moor's Last Sigh
Source: The Moor's Last Sigh
“There is nothing like a War for the reinvention of lives…”
Salman Rushdie livre Midnight's Children
Source: Midnight's Children
Salman Rushdie livre Midnight's Children
Source: Midnight's Children
Salman Rushdie livre Midnight's Children
Source: Midnight's Children
“What's the use of stories that aren't even true?”
Salman Rushdie Haroun et la mer des histoires
Source: Haroun and the Sea of Stories
“My horizon's have shrunk and I have only endings to write.”
Salman Rushdie livre The Enchantress of Florence
Source: The Enchantress of Florence
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 livre The Satanic Verses
Variante: 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
“What grows best in the heat: fantasy; unreason; lust.”
Salman Rushdie livre Midnight's Children
Source: Midnight's Children
Salman Rushdie livre Shalimar the Clown
Source: Shalimar the Clown
