Shame
Salman Rushdie
Top 10 Best Quotes
“Realism can break a writer's heart.”
“Repression is a seamless garment; a society which is authoritarian in its social and sexual codes, which crushes its women beneath the intolerable burdens of honour and propriety, breeds repressions of other kinds as well.”
“All migrants leave their pasts behind, although some try to pack it into bundles and boxes-but on the journey something seeps out of the treasured mementoes and old photographs, until even their owners fail to recognize them, because it is the fate of migrants to be stripped of history, to stand naked amidst the scorn of strangers upon whom they see rich clothing, the brocades of continuity and the eyebrows of belonging..”
“Between shame and shamelessness lies the axis upon which we turn; meteorological conditions at both these poles are of the most extreme, ferocious type. Shamelessness, shame: the roots of violence.”
“A man who catches History's eye is thereafter bound to a mistress from whom he will never escape.”
“You can get anywhere in Pakistan if you know people, even into jail.”
“But shame is like everything else; live with it for long enough and it becomes part of the furniture.”
“Roots, I sometimes think, are a conservative myth, designed to keep us in our places.”
“We know the force of gravity, but not its origins; and to explain why we become attached to our birthplaces we pretend that we are trees and speak of roots. Look under your feet. You will not find gnarled growths sprouting through the soles. Roots, I sometimes think, are a conservative myth, designed to keep us in our places.”
“Is history to be considered the property of the participants only?”
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gender-equality, propriety, repression, humour, history, pakistan, mysogyny, destiny, honor, realism, writing, women, womens-rights, magical-realism, freedom