“Things, even people have a way of leaking into each other like flavours when you cook.”
Salman Rushdie book Midnight's Children
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Quotes from bookMidnight's Children
Midnight's Children is a 1981 novel by British Indian author Salman Rushdie. It deals with India's transition from British colonialism to independence and the partition of British India. It is considered an example of postcolonial, postmodern, and magical realist literature. The story is told by its chief protagonist, Saleem Sinai, and is set in the context of actual historical events. The style of preserving history with fictional accounts is self-reflexive.
“Everything has shape, if you look for it. There is no escape from form.”
Salman Rushdie book Midnight's Children
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“For every snake, there is a ladder; for every ladder, a snake”
Salman Rushdie book Midnight's Children
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“Most of what matters in our lives takes place in our absence.”
Salman Rushdie book Midnight's Children
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“What you were is forever who you are.”
Salman Rushdie book Midnight's Children
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“I admit it: above all things, I fear absurdity.”
Salman Rushdie book Midnight's Children
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“There is nothing like a War for the reinvention of lives…”
Salman Rushdie book Midnight's Children
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“Children are the vessels into which adults pour their poison.”
Salman Rushdie book Midnight's Children
Source: Midnight's Children (1981)
“To understand just one life, you have to swallow the world.”
Salman Rushdie book Midnight's Children
Variant: To understand just one life you have to swallow the world... do you wonder, then, that I was a heavy child?
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“What can't be cured must be endured.”
Salman Rushdie book Midnight's Children
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Part II
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“What grows best in the heat: fantasy; unreason; lust.”
Salman Rushdie book Midnight's Children
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“What's real and what's true aren't necessarily the same.”
Salman Rushdie book Midnight's Children
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