Frasi di Salman Rushdie
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Salman Rushdie
Data di nascita:19. Giugno 1947
Frasi Salman Rushdie
„Whenever someone who knows you disappears, you lose one version of yourself. Yourself as you were seen, as you were judged to be. Lover or enemy, mother or friend, those who know us construct us, and their several knowings slant the different facets of our characters like diamond-cutter's tools. Each such loss is a step leading to the grave, where all versions blend and end.“
— Salman Rushdie
The Ground Beneath Her Feet
„I am the sum total of everything that went before me, of all I have been seen done, of everything done-to-me. I am everyone everything whose being-in-the-world affected was affected by mine. I am anything that happens after I'm gone which would not have happened if I had not come.“
— Salman Rushdie
Midnight's Children
„From the beginning men used God to justify the unjustifiable.“
— Salman Rushdie
The Satanic Verses
„Memory's truth, because memory has its own special kind. It selects, eliminates, alters, exaggerates, minimizes, glorifies, and vilifies also; but in the end it creates its own reality, its heterogeneous but usually coherent version of events; and no sane human being ever trusts someone else's version more than his own.“
— Salman Rushdie
Midnight's Children
„Go for broke. Always try and do too much. Dispense with safety nets. Take a deep breath before you begin talking. Aim for the stars. Keep grinning. Be bloody-minded. Argue with the world. And never forget that writing is as close as we get to keeping a hold on the thousand and one things--childhood, certainties, cities, doubts, dreams, instants, phrases, parents, loves--that go on slipping, like sand, through our fingers.“
— Salman Rushdie
Imaginary Homelands: Essays and Criticism 1981-1991
„Now I know what a ghost is. Unfinished business, that's what.“
— Salman Rushdie
The Satanic Verses
„What kind of idea are you? Are you the kind that compromises, does deals, accomodates itself to society, aims to find a niche, to survive; or are you the cussed, bloody-minded, ramrod-backed type of damnfool notion that would rather break than sway with the breeze? – The kind that will almost certainly, ninety-nine times out of hundred, be smashed to bits; but, the hundredth time, will change the world.“
— Salman Rushdie
The Satanic Verses
„A photograph is a moral decision taken in one eighth of a second.“
— Salman Rushdie
The Ground Beneath Her Feet
„We all owe death a life.“
— Salman Rushdie
Midnight's Children
