Salman Rushdie

I'm no friend of Tony Blair's and I consider the Middle East policies of the United States and the UK fatal. ↗

— Salman Rushdie

#consider #east #fatal #friend #i

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

— Salman Rushdie

#asked #bite #i #religion #say

If you actually want to change your world, there is a better way of doing it than blowing yourself up. ↗

— Salman Rushdie

#better #better way #blowing #change #doing

In this world without quiet corners, there can be no easy escapes from history, from hullabaloo, from terrible, unquiet fuss. ↗

— Salman Rushdie

#easy #escapes #fuss #history #quiet

It is very, very easy not to be offended by a book. You just have to shut it. ↗

— Salman Rushdie

#easy #just #offended #shut #very

Names, once they are in common use, quickly become mere sounds, their etymology being buried, like so many of the earth's marvels, beneath the dust of habit. ↗

— Salman Rushdie

#being #beneath #buried #common #dust

Our lives are not what we deserve; they are, let us agree, in many ways deficient. ↗

— Salman Rushdie

#deficient #deserve #let us #lives #many

Our lives teach us who we are. ↗

— Salman Rushdie

#our #our lives #teach #us #who

Rock and roll music - the music of freedom frightens people and unleashes all manner of conservative defense mechanisms. ↗

— Salman Rushdie

#defense #freedom #frightens #manner #mechanisms

Such is the miraculous nature of the future of exiles: what is first uttered in the impotence of an overheated apartment becomes the fate of nations. ↗

— Salman Rushdie

#becomes #exiles #fate #first #future