Salman Rushdie Zitate

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„Voller Entsetzen begriffen sie, dass dies der letzte & schlimmste Trick des Dschungels war, dass er sie, indem er ihre Herzenswünsche erfüllte, dazu verleitete, ihre Träume aufzubrauchen, so dass sie, während ihr Traumleben ihnen entschlüpfte, so hohl & durchsichtig wie Glas wurden.“

„Kinder machen sich Phantasievorstellungen von ihren Vätern, formen sie sich nach ihren kindlichen Bedürfnissen. Die Realität eines Vaters ist eine Last, die nur wenige Söhne zu tragen vermögen.“

„Religion, eine mittelalterliche Form der Unvernunft, wird, wenn sie mit modernen Waffen kombiniert wird, zu einer echten Gefahr unserer Freiheiten.“

„In dem Moment, in dem du sagst, ein Ideensystem muss fürchten, egal, ob es sich um ein religiöses Glaubenssystem oder eine säkulare Ideologie handelt, in dem Moment, in dem man eine Reihe von Ideen für immun gegen Kritik, Satire, Spott oder Verachtung erklärt, wird die Freiheit des Denkens unmöglich.“

„Ein Buch ist solange nicht vollendet, bis es gelesen wurde.“

„Zu viele Leute hatten zu viel Zeit damit verbracht, mich zu dämonisieren oder als Götzenbild darzustellen, um ernsthaft zu hören, was ich zu sagen hatte.“

“Now I know what a ghost is. Unfinished business, that's what.”

“A poet's work… to name the unnamable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world and stop it from going to sleep.”

“We all owe death a life.”

“Free societies… are societies in motion, and with motion comes tension, dissent, friction. Free people strike sparks, and those sparks are the best evidence of freedom's existence.”

“The only people who see the whole picture are the ones who step outside the frame.”

“How do you defeat terrorism? Don’t be terrorized.”

“What's real and what's true aren't necessarily the same.”

“Most of what matters in our lives takes place in our absence.”

“faith without doubt is addiction”

“Masks beneath masks until suddenly the bare bloodless skull.”

“Realism can break a writer's heart.”

“The world, somebody wrote, is the place we prove real by dying in it.”

“‎No people whose word for 'yesterday' is the same as their word for 'tomorrow' can be said to have a firm grip on the time.”

“Perhaps the story you finish is never the one you begin.”

“What can't be cured must be endured.”

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

The problem’s name is God.”

“Children are the vessels into which adults pour their poison.”

“We were language's magpies by nature, stealing whatever sounded bright and shiny.”

“Books choose their authors; the act of creation is not entirely a rational and conscious one.”

“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 more and more incredible.”

“To understand just one life, you have to swallow the world.”

“Not all possibilities are open to us. The world is finite; our hopes spill over its rim.”

“I learned: the first lesson of my life: nobody can face the world with his eyes open all the time.”

“Vertigo is the conflict between the fear of falling and the desire to fall.”

“Question: What is the opposite of faith?

Not disbelief. Too final, certain, closed. Itself is a kind of belief.

Doubt.”

“We crave permission openly to become our secret selves.”

“I want more than what I want. (Vina Apsara)”

“We are described into corners, and then we must describe ourselves out of corners.”

“When you throw everything up in the air anything becomes possible.”