Salman Rushdie Zitate

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Midnight's Children

Wall Street Journal, 7 Januar 2015, Salman Rushdie: ‘I Stand With Charlie Hebdo, as We All Must’ http://blogs.wsj.com/speakeasy/2015/01/07/salman-rushdie-i-stand-with-charlie-hebdo-as-we-all-must/. <br class="br">Original engl.: &quot;Religion, a mediaeval form of unreason, when combined with modern weaponry becomes a real threat to our freedoms.&quot;

Quelle: Haroun and the Sea of Stories

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"Imaginary Homelands (1992)
Quelle: Imaginary Homelands: Essays and Criticism 1981-1991
Kontext: It may be argued that the past is a country from which we have all emigrated, that its loss is part of our common humanity. Which seems to be self-evidently true; but I suggest that the writer who is out-of-country and even out-of-language may experience this loss in an intensified form. It is made more concrete for him by the physical fact of discontinuity, of his present being in a different place from his past, of his being "elsewhere"… human beings do not perceive things whole; we are not gods but wounded creatures, cracked lenses, capably only of fractured perceptions. Partial beings, in all the senses of that phrase. Meaning is a shaky edifice we build out of scraps, dogmas, childhood injuries, newspaper articles, chance remarks, old films, small victories, people hated, people loved; perhaps it is because of our sense of what is the case is constructed from such inadequate materials that we defend it so fiercely, even to the death.

Quelle: Joseph Anton: A Memoir

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Quelle: The Satanic Verses

Quelle: The Enchantress of Florence

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Variante: You can't judge an internal injury by the size of the hole.
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