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More Quotes by Salman Rushdie
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.
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.
Now I know what a ghost is. Unfinished business, that's what.
From the beginning men used God to justify the unjustifiable.
What's real and what's true aren't necessarily the same.
Children are the vessels into which adults pour their poison.
To understand just one life you have to swallow the world ... do you wonder, then, that I was a heavy child?
Language is courage: the ability to conceive a thought, to speak it, and by doing so to make it true.