Salman Rushdie Quotes That Will Inspire You to Live Your Best Life

1. 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. Midnight's Children

2. ‎No people whose word for 'yesterday' is the same as their word for 'tomorrow' can be said to have a firm grip on the time. Midnight's Children

3. What kind of Christmas present would Jesus ask Santa for? Fury

4. A book is a product of a pact with the Devil that inverts the Faustian contract, he'd told Allie. Dr Faustus sacrificed eternity in return for two dozen years of power; the writer agrees to the ruination of his life, and gains (but only if he's lucky) maybe not eternity, but posterity, at least. Either way (this was Jumpy's point) it's the Devil who wins. The Satanic Verses

5. A poet's work . . . to name the unnamable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world and stop it from going to sleep. The Satanic Verses

6. ‎No people whose word for 'yesterday' is the same as their word for 'tomorrow' can be said to have a firm grip on the time. Midnight's Children

7. Systems of thought, and their antitheses as well, are merely codifications of what we think we know. When we begin to abandon them, we open ourselves to the immensity of the universe, and therefore also to immense possibilities, including the possibility of the impossible. Quichotte

8. We walk unknowing amid the shadows of our past and, forgetting our history, are ignorant of ourselves. Quichotte