More Quotes by Salman Rushdie
We all owe death a life.
To understand just one life you have to swallow the world ... do you wonder, then, that I was a heavy child?
Realism can break a writer's heart.
What can't be cured must be endured.
Children are the vessels into which adults pour their poison.
The only people who see the whole picture,' he murmured, 'are the ones who step out of the frame.
How do you defeat terrorism? Don’t be terrorized.
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.
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.
Most of what matters in our lives takes place in our absence.
