Salman Rushdie

Indian-born British-American novelist (born 1947)

11 stories

20 quotes

It has made the last decade of my life very rich. To find that level of love relatively late in life, you are very lucky. It is blind luck. Love comes at you when you're not looking for it. It whacks you over the back of the head — or in my case, the nose!”
I look forward to the day when there is no more Trump and every ugly thing he's built gets torn down.”
The people actually doing the protection, the police officers who were with me were always very sympathetic and professional, many became long term friends. The problems were at higher echelons of command, where you felt they were doing the protection reluctantly.”
When it had become likely that I was going to survive,... I said to Eliza we need to make a record of this. By which I meant something very modest: maybe she would take a picture of me on her iPhone every couple of days just to document the recovery, but Eliza had bigger ideas.”
I can’t say what his ambitions or his aim was, but the wounds were dispersed across my body.”
For two decades or more, I led a public life without a hint of trouble,

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