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Letter "S" » Salman Rushdie Quotes
«What distinguishes a great artist from a weak one is first their sensibility and tenderness; second, their imagination, and third, their industry.»
Author: Salman Rushdie
(Writer)
| About:
Art,
Imagination,
Tenderness
| Keywords:
distinguishes, industry, sensibilities, sensibility, tenderness
«Whores and writers, Mahound. We are the people you can't forgive.»
«Our lives teach us who we are.»
Author: Salman Rushdie
(Writer)
«Writers and politicians are natural rivals. Both groups try to make the world in their own images; they fight for the same territory.»
«I do not need the idea of God to explain the world I live in»
«The idea of the sacred is quite simply one of the most conservative notions in any culture, because it seeks to turn other ideas - uncertainty, progress, change - into crimes»
Author: Salman Rushdie
(Writer)
| Keywords:
conservative, crimes, culture, notions, sacred, seeks, uncertainty
«Most of what matters in your life takes place in your absence.»
Author: Salman Rushdie
(Writer)
«One of the extraordinary things about human events is that the unthinkable becomes thinkable.»
«Reality is a question of perspective; the further you get from the past, the more concrete and plausible it seems -but as you approach the present, it inevitably seems incredible.»
Author: Salman Rushdie
(Writer)
| About:
Reality
| Keywords:
approach, concrete, further, incredible, inevitably, perspective, plausible
«If you want to tell the untold stories, if you want to give voice to the voiceless, you've got to find a language. Which goes for film as well as prose, for documentary as well as autobiography. Use the wrong language, and you're dumb and blind.»
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