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Famous Salman Rushdie Quotes
“My love for Dan Brown knows no bounds. It literally has no mass.”
“Everything has shape, if you look for it. There is no escape from form.”
“A figure of speech is a shifty thing; it can be twisted or it can be straight.”
“Children are the vessels into which adults pour their poison.”
“My heart broke open and history fell in.”
“Our lives, our stories, flowed into one another's, were no longer our own, individual, discrete.”
“When you throw everything up in the air anything becomes possible.”
“She saw him fracture into rainbow colors through the prism of her love.”
“We are the only animals that tell stories to understand the world we live in.”
“The fact of being alive compensated for what life did to one.”
“Can one drown in one's element... If fish can drown in water, can human beings suffocate in air?”
“You never know the answers to the questions of life until you are asked.”
“Don't you know girls have to fool people every day of their lives if they want to get anywhere?”
“Things, even people have a way of leaking into each other like flavours when you cook.”
“For every snake, there is a ladder; for every ladder,a snake”
“The lessons one learns at school are not always the ones the school thinks it's teaching.”
“I learned: the first lesson of my life: nobody can face the world with his eyes open all the time.”
“When you know what you're against you have taken the first step to discovering what you're for.”
“When we stop believing in the gods we can start believing in their stories.”
“What grows best in the heat: fantasy; unreason; lust.”
“What one writer can make in the solitude of one room is something no power can easily destroy.”