More Quotes by Salman Rushdie
Most of what matters in our lives takes place in our absence.
What can't be cured must be endured.
A photograph is a moral decision taken in one eighth of a second.
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.
The only people who see the whole picture,' he murmured, 'are the ones who step out of the frame.
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.
How do you defeat terrorism? Don’t be terrorized.
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.
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.
