Salman Rushdie Quotes About Enemies

• Whenever someone who knows you disappears, you lose one version of yourself. Yourself as you were seen, as you were judged to be. Lover or enemy, mother or friend, those who know us construct us, and their several knowings slant the different facets of our characters like diamond-cutter's tools. Each such loss is a step leading to the grave, where all versions blend and end.

  Salman Rushdie

  Friends, Mother, Character

  "The Ground Beneath Her Feet". Book by Salman Rushdie, April, 1999.

• We have come to think of taking offence as a fundamental right. We value very little more highly than our rage, which gives us, in our opinion, the moral high ground. From there we can shoot down at our enemies and inflict heavy fatalities.

  Salman Rushdie

  Thinking, Moral High Ground, Giving

  "Raging from the moral highground" by Ian Sansom, www.theguardian.com. August 11, 2000.

• As I look back, I feel a touch of pride at my younger self's dedication to literature, which gave him the strength of mind to resist the blandishments of the enemies of promise. The sirens of ad-land sang sweetly and seductively, but I thought of Odysseus lashing himself to the mast of his ship, and somehow stayed on course.

  Salman Rushdie

  Pride, Dedication, Land

• Khattam-Shud,' he said slowly, 'is the Arch-Enemy of all Stories, even of language itself. He is the Prince of Silence and the Foe of Speech. And because everything ends, because dreams end, stories end, life ends, at the finish of everything we use his name. "It's finished," we tell one another, "it's over. Khattam-Shud: The End.

  Salman Rushdie

  Dream, Names, Silence

  Salman Rushdie (1990). “Haroun and the Sea of Stories”, Penguin Books

• I hate admitting that my enemies have a point.

  Salman Rushdie

  Hate, Enemy, Admitting

  Salman Rushdie (1989). "Los versos satánicos", New York, N.Y. : Viking

• The enemy for the fanatic is pleasure, which makes it extremely important to continue to indulge in pleasure. Dance madly. That is how you get rid of terrorism.

  Salman Rushdie

  Indulge In, Enemy, Important

  "Salman Rushdie habla en CU-Boulder sobre el papel de la novela en la era de las noticias 24 horas", por Joe Rubino, www.huffingtonpost.com. 18 de abril de 2013.

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