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More Quotes by Salman Rushdie
Most of what matters in our lives takes place in our absence.
Realism can break a writer's heart.
What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.
A photograph is a moral decision taken in one eighth of a second.
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.
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.
Children are the vessels into which adults pour their poison.
Now I know what a ghost is. Unfinished business, that's what.
The only people who see the whole picture,' he murmured, 'are the ones who step out of the frame.
Language is courage: the ability to conceive a thought, to speak it, and by doing so to make it true.