Throughout human history, the apostles o... by Salman Rushdie

Author History Novelist controversial award-winning

Throughout human history, the apostles of purity, those who have claimed to possess a total explanation, have wrought havoc among mere mixed-up human beings.

- Salman Rushdie

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Memory's truth, because memory has its own special kind. It selects, eliminates, alters, exaggerates, minimizes, glorifies, and vilifies also; but in the end it creates its own reality, its heterogeneous but usually coherent version of events; and no sane human being ever trusts someone else's version more than his own.

- Salman Rushdie

Enemies

I hate admitting that my enemies have a point.

- Salman Rushdie

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.

- Salman Rushdie

The only people who see the whole picture are the ones who step out of the frame.

- Salman Rushdie

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

- Salman Rushdie

Life

Most of what matters in your life takes place in your absence.

- Salman Rushdie

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