More Quotes by Salman Rushdie
What's real and what's true aren't necessarily the same.
To understand just one life you have to swallow the world ... do you wonder, then, that I was a heavy child?
What can't be cured must be endured.
Now I know what a ghost is. Unfinished business, that's what.
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.
How do you defeat terrorism? Don’t be terrorized.
Children are the vessels into which adults pour their poison.
Masks beneath masks until suddenly the bare bloodless skull.
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.