“Maybe, according to my insula, this is the way things are these days in America: that for some of us, the world stopped making sense. Anything can happen. Here can be there, then can be now, up can be down, truth can be lies. Everything's slip-sliding around and there's nothing to hold on to. The whole thing has come apart at the seams.”
Salman Rushdie (born June 19, 1947) is a British-Indian novelist and essayist. Known for his magical realism style, his novel Midnight's Children won the Booker Prize in 1981. His works often explore themes of cultural conflict, religion, and politics. In 1988, his novel The Satanic Verses sparked global controversy, leading to a fatwa issued by Iran's Ayatollah Khomeini calling for his assassination. Rushdie spent years in hiding under police protection. He remains a prominent voice in contemporary English literature, celebrated for his literary innovation and defense of free expression. more
“I cannot tell if I am lying.”
“The lies that people tell in stories is what makes them so true.”
“Aşk zoru sever, arzu kolayı. Sevgi ise her ikisini de…”
“The truth about lies is that first, it's to fool others and later it's to fool yourself.”
“To impeach the President or not to impeach the President, that is the question.”
“Not only was the relationship fake, but you deliberately gave me bad sex! You're a monster.”