More Quotes by Salman Rushdie
A photograph is a moral decision taken in one eighth of a second.
What can't be cured must be endured.
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.
Faith without doubt is addiction
Children are the vessels into which adults pour their poison.
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.
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.
Language is courage: the ability to conceive a thought, to speak it, and by doing so to make it true.
What's real and what's true aren't necessarily the same.