Salman Rushdie

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

— Salman Rushdie

#individualism #conformity

If I were asked for a one-sentence sound bite on religion, I would say I was against it. ↗

— Salman Rushdie

#religion #religion

One minute you've got a lucky star watching over you and the next instant it's done a bunk. ↗

— Salman Rushdie

#life #life

She's no flibberti-gibberti mamzell, but a whir-stir-get-lost-sir bundla dynamite! ↗

— Salman Rushdie

#satan

A little bit of one story joins onto an idea from another, and hey presto, . . . not old tales but new ones. Nothing comes from nothing. ↗

— Salman Rushdie

#creation #imagination #imagination

O the shame of it, the humiliating shame of being condescended to by dolts ↗

— Salman Rushdie

#humor

Do not start me on The Da Vinci Code ... a novel so bad that it gives bad novels a bad name." (Discussion at Woodruff Auditorium in Lawrence, KS; October 7, 2005.) ↗

— Salman Rushdie

#literary-criticism #novels #the-davinci-code #writing #literary-criticism

The ruthlessness of the godly invalidated their claims of virtue. ↗

— Salman Rushdie

#virtue #religion

If by some bizarre chance there turns out to be a god [...], I'm willing to bet he's an atheist too. ↗

— Salman Rushdie

#god #religion #twitter #religion

Human life was rarely shapely, only intermittently meaningful, its clumsiness the inevitable consequence of the victory of content over form, of what and when over how and why. ↗

— Salman Rushdie

#life