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More Quotes by Salman Rushdie
From the beginning men used God to justify the unjustifiable.
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.
Masks beneath masks until suddenly the bare bloodless skull.
What can't be cured must be endured.
Free societies...are societies in motion, and with motion comes tension, dissent, friction. Free people strike sparks, and those sparks are the best evidence of freedom's existence.
We all owe death a life.
The only people who see the whole picture,' he murmured, 'are the ones who step out of the frame.
Realism can break a writer's heart.
What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.
I am the sum total of everything that went before me, of all I have been seen done, of everything done-to-me. I am everyone everything whose being-in-the-world affected was affected by mine. I am anything that happens after I'm gone which would not have happened if I had not come.
