Grimus Quotes

“man is sane only to the extent that he subscribes to a previously-agreed construction of reality.”
― Salman Rushdie, Grimus

“Among geniuses intelligence loses its currency; they vie with each other at cooking or sex. So with immortals. When age becomes a constant, it becomes irrelevant.”
― Salman Rushdie, Grimus

“Yes, he was mad. But he is in me, and I know him.”
― Salman Rushdie, Grimus

“I want to do grow old. Not to die: to grow old.”
― Salman Rushdie, Grimus

“My diaries have always been my friends. The written word is so much more constant than human beings.”
― Salman Rushdie, Grimus

“A life always contains a peak. A moment that makes it worthwhile.”
― Salman Rushdie, Grimus

“It's the difference, you see, between casual sex and love. The more you love, the more closely you get to know, the more profoundly you see, the more you are enriched.”
― Salman Rushdie, Grimus

“A man is sane only to the extent that he subscribes to a previously-agreed construction of reality.”
― Salman Rushdie, Grimus

“The limitations we place upon the world are imposed by ourselves rather than the world.”
― Salman Rushdie, Grimus

“Perhaps it was wrong to lie with her. Another duty, another obligation, another potential source of guilt. Was I lying to her in lying with her?”
― Salman Rushdie, Grimus

“Perhaps it was wrong to lie with him. Now I have given him what he wanted. Now I have nothing for him, nothing held back, nothing to hold him.”
― Salman Rushdie, Grimus

“If tales are important, they must be well-shaped.”
― Salman Rushdie, Grimus

“I disapprove of certainties, said Virgil Jones. They limit one's range of vision. Doubt is one aspect of width.”
― Salman Rushdie, Grimus

“Stories should be like life, slightly frayed at the edges, full of loose ends and lives juxtaposed by accident rather than some grand design. Most of life has no meaning--so it must surely be a distortion of life to tell tales in which every single element is meaningful?”
― Salman Rushdie, Grimus

“Mr. Eagle, you are not a realized man. That is your weakness and also your power. Before one realizes oneself one has the optimism of ignorance. It can be the saving of one's life. Once realized, one faces the terror of knowing what it is you are and have done...the realized man can have a profound effect on the world about him; he must bear the consequences, and guilt, of that as well...”
― Salman Rushdie, Grimus

“A live dog is better than a dead lion, but death is preferable to poverty.”
― Salman Rushdie, Grimus

“Unfortunately life has a way of sidetracking one’s greatest ambitions. Painters, would-be artists, end up whitewashing walls. Sculptors are forced to design toilets. Writers become critics or publicists. Archaeologists, like myself, can become gravediggers.”
― Salman Rushdie, Grimus