East, West Quotes

“At sixteen, you still think you can escape from your father. You aren't listening to his voice speaking through your mouth, you don't see how your gestures already mirror his; you don't see him in the way you hold your body, in the way you sign your name. You don't hear his whisper in your blood.”
― Salman Rushdie, East, West

“I, too, have ropes around my neck. I have them to this day, pulling me this way and that, East and West, the nooses tightening, commanding, choose, choose. I buck, I snort, I whinny, I rear, Ikick. Ropes, I do not choose between you. Lassoes, lariats, I choose neither of you, and both. Doyou hear? I refuse to choose.”
― Salman Rushdie, East, West

“We, the public, are easily, lethally offended. 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 this high ground we can shoot down at our enemies and inflict heavy fatalities. We take pride in our short fuses. Our anger elevates, transcends.”
― Salman Rushdie, East, West

“Good advice Is Rarer Than Rubies”
― Salman Rushdie, East, West

“Did you know, ji,’ Zulu offered, ‘that the map of Tolkien’s Middle earth fits quite well over central England and Wales? Maybe all fairylands are right here, in our midst.”
― Salman Rushdie, East, West

“The thief’s widow had turned him, before she married him, into a thief of a stupid and terrible kind, because she had made him rob himself.”
― Salman Rushdie, East, West

“Asıl trajedi insanın ölümü değil,” diye düşündü. “Nasıl yaşadığı.”
― Salman Rushdie, East, West

“Benim de boynuma geçirilmiş ipler vardı ve bugün hala duran o ipler beni bir o yana bir bu yana, bir Doğu'ya bir Batı'ya çekiştiriyor, ilmekler daralıyor, "seç, seçimini yap" diye emrediyor.
Sıçrıyor, burnumdan soluyor, kişniyor, şaha kalkıyor, çifteler savuruyorum.
...Duyuyor musunuz? Seçmeyi reddediyorum.”
― Salman Rushdie, East, West

“Ci offendiamo facilmente, mortalmente. Siamo arrivati a pensare che offendersi sia uno dei diritti fondamentali. Pochissime cose apprezziamo più della nostra indignazione, che ci dà, a parer nostro, la giustificazione morale. Dall'alto di questa posizione possiamo sparare ai nostri nemici e infliggere loro gravi perdite. Siamo fieri della nostra suscettibilità.”
― Salman Rushdie, East, West

“We, the public, are easily, lethally offended. 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 this high ground we can shoot down at our enemies and inflict heavy fatalities. We take pride in our short fuses. Our anger elevates, transcends.”
― Salman Rushdie, East, West

“We, the public, are easily, lethally offended. We have come to think of taking offence as a fundamental right. We value very little more highly than our rage, which gives is, in our opinion, the moral high ground. From this high ground we can shoot down at our enemies and inflict heavy fatalities. We take pride in our short fuses. Our anger, transcends.”
― Salman Rushdie, East, West

“I, too, have ropes around my neck, I have them to this day, pulling me this way and that, East and West, the nooses tightening, commanding, choose, choose. . . . Ropes, I do not choose between you. Lassoes, lariats, I choose neither of you, and both. Do you hear? I refuse to choose.”
― Salman Rushdie, East, West