Quotes Tagged With :rushdie

He did not wish to be divine. If there had never been a God, the emperor thought, it might have been....

To take a side against Rushdie, or to be neutral and evasive about him in the name of some vaguely sensitive....

She allowed history to leave her without trying to hold it back, the way children allow a grand parade....

Reality is a question of perspective; the further you get from the past, the more concrete and plausible....

...what a leveller this remote-control gizmo was...it chopped down the heavyweight and stretched out....

The moment you say that any idea system is sacred, whether it’s a religious belief system or a secular....

..now, seated hunched over paper in a pool of Anglepoised light, I no longer want to be anything except....

Among the great struggles of man-good/evil, reason/unreason, etc.-there is also this mighty conflict....

So India’s problem turns out to be the world’s problem. What happened in India has happened in God’s....

Your potentials are called POTENTIALS because they are POTENT. Don't make them IMPOTENT by being IMPATIENT.....