More Quotes by Salman Rushdie
Language is courage: the ability to conceive a thought, to speak it, and by doing so to make it true.
The only people who see the whole picture,' he murmured, 'are the ones who step out of the frame.
Most of what matters in our lives takes place in our absence.
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.
We all owe death a life.
How do you defeat terrorism? Don’t be terrorized.
Masks beneath masks until suddenly the bare bloodless skull.
Faith without doubt is addiction
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.
