More Quotes by Salman Rushdie
How do you defeat terrorism? Don’t be terrorized.
Masks beneath masks until suddenly the bare bloodless skull.
To understand just one life you have to swallow the world ... do you wonder, then, that I was a heavy child?
A photograph is a moral decision taken in one eighth of a second.
Language is courage: the ability to conceive a thought, to speak it, and by doing so to make it true.
The only people who see the whole picture,' he murmured, 'are the ones who step out of the frame.
What can't be cured must be endured.
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.
What's real and what's true aren't necessarily the same.
Now I know what a ghost is. Unfinished business, that's what.
