More Quotes by Salman Rushdie
To understand just one life you have to swallow the world ... do you wonder, then, that I was a heavy child?
The only people who see the whole picture,' he murmured, 'are the ones who step out of the frame.
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.
Most of what matters in our lives takes place in our absence.
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.
We all owe death a life.
What's real and what's true aren't necessarily the same.
What can't be cured must be endured.