Salman Rushdie słynne cytaty
„Musimy posłać przeciwko terrorystom swoich bojowników i mieć nadzieję, że nasi zdobędą przewagę.”
Źródło: „Wprost”, 22 października 2001
Źródło: Vittorio Messori, Czarne karty Kościoła, przeł. ks. Antoni Kajzerek, Księgarnia św. Jacka, Katowice 1998, s. 238.
„Jeżeli damy się terroryzować przez strach terrorystom, wygrają.”
If we allow ourselves to be terrorized by fear of the terrorists, then they have won. (ang.)
Salman Rushdie cytaty
Szatańskie wersety (1988)
o zamachu z 11 września 2001 na Nowy Jork.
„Nie sądzę, że jest potrzeba istnienia w moim życiu takiej istoty jak Bóg.”
I don’t think there is a need for an entity like God in my life. (ang.)
Źródło: wywiad z Dysonem Frostem.
Tym rodzajem, który najprawdopodobniej, dziewięćdziesiąt dziewięć razy na sto, zostanie starty na proch; ale, za setnym razem, zmieni świat.
Szatańskie wersety (1988)
Salman Rushdie: Cytaty po angielsku
“I admit it: above all things, I fear absurdity.”
Źródło: Midnight's Children
“What you were is forever who you are.”
Źródło: Midnight's Children
“For every snake, there is a ladder; for every ladder, a snake”
Źródło: Midnight's Children
"Imaginary Homelands (1992)
Źródło: Imaginary Homelands: Essays and Criticism 1981-1991
Kontekst: 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.”
Źródło: Joseph Anton: A Memoir
“Everything has shape, if you look for it. There is no escape from form.”
Źródło: Midnight's Children
“There is nothing like a War for the reinvention of lives…”
Źródło: Midnight's Children
“What's the use of stories that aren't even true?”
Źródło: Haroun and the Sea of Stories
“My horizon's have shrunk and I have only endings to write.”
Źródło: The Enchantress of Florence
“Nobody can judge an internal injury by the size of the superficial wound.”
Wariant: You can't judge an internal injury by the size of the hole.
Źródło: The Satanic Verses
“My heart broke open and history fell in.”
Źródło: The Ground Beneath Her Feet
“What grows best in the heat: fantasy; unreason; lust.”
Źródło: Midnight's Children
