More Quotes by Salman Rushdie
Most of what matters in our lives takes place in our absence.
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.
What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.
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 photograph is a moral decision taken in one eighth of a second.
Realism can break a writer's heart.
Faith without doubt is addiction
Masks beneath masks until suddenly the bare bloodless skull.
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.
What can't be cured must be endured.
