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More Quotes by Salman Rushdie
Realism can break a writer's heart.
Most of what matters in our lives takes place in our absence.
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.
A photograph is a moral decision taken in one eighth of a second.
Children are the vessels into which adults pour their poison.
From the beginning men used God to justify the unjustifiable.
Language is courage: the ability to conceive a thought, to speak it, and by doing so to make it true.
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.
How do you defeat terrorism? Don’t be terrorized.
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.