Salman Rushdie cytaty (132 cytatów, strona 3)

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

“Nothing comes from nothing, Thieflet; no story comes from nowhere; new stories are born from old--it is the new combinations that make them new.”

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Salman Rushdie Haroun and the Sea of Stories

Źródło: Haroun and the Sea of Stories

“He knew what he knew: that the real world was full of magic, so magical worlds could easily be real.”

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Salman Rushdie Haroun and the Sea of Stories

Źródło: Haroun and the Sea of Stories

“I admit it: above all things, I fear absurdity.”

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Salman Rushdie książka Midnight's Children

Źródło: Midnight's Children

“perhaps, if one wishes to remain an individual in the midst of the teeming multitudes, one must make oneself grotesque.”

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Salman Rushdie książka Midnight's Children

Źródło: Midnight's Children

“A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it; or offer your own version in return.”

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Salman Rushdie

“What you were is forever who you are.”

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Salman Rushdie książka Midnight's Children

Źródło: Midnight's Children

“For every snake, there is a ladder; for every ladder, a snake”

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Salman Rushdie książka Midnight's Children

Źródło: Midnight's Children

“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.”

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Salman Rushdie

"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.”

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Salman Rushdie książka Joseph Anton: A Memoir

Źródło: Joseph Anton: A Memoir

“Everything has shape, if you look for it. There is no escape from form.”

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Salman Rushdie książka Midnight's Children

Źródło: Midnight's Children

“Having been borne across the world, we are translated men. It is normally supposed that something always gets lost in translation; I cling, obstinately, to the notion that something can also be gained.”

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Salman Rushdie

“India, the new myth--a collective fiction in which anything was possible, a fable rivalled only by the two other mighty fantasies: money and God.”