Other Quote by Salman Rushdie — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“He knew that his father had finally run hard enough and long enough to wear down the frontiers between the worlds, he had run clear out of his skin and into the arms of his wife, to whom he had proved, once and for all, the superiority of his love. Some migrants are happy to depart.”

“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.”

“All true believers have good reasons for disbelieving in every god except their own,' said Birbal, 'and so it is they who, between them, give me all the reasons for believing in none.”

“What kind of Christmas present would Jesus ask Santa for?”

“How treacherous history is! Half-truths, ignorance, deceptions, false trails, errors, and lies, and buried somewhere in between all of that, the truth, in which it is easy to lose faith, of which it is consequently easy to say, it’s a chimera, there’s no such thing, everything is relative, one man’s absolute belief is another man’s fairy tale; but about which we insist, we insist most emphatically, that it is too important an idea to give up to the relativity merchants.”

“When you make a choice, you change the future.”

“Man conquers the world by conquering himself.”

“Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.”

“Creativity doesn't wait for that perfect moment. It fashions its own perfect moments out of ordinary ones.”

“You can't use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.”

“My mama always said: life is like a box of chocolate, you never know what you gonna get.”