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More Quotes by Salman Rushdie
Most of what matters in our lives takes place in our absence.
Language is courage: the ability to conceive a thought, to speak it, and by doing so to make it true.
To understand just one life you have to swallow the world ... do you wonder, then, that I was a heavy child?
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.
Now I know what a ghost is. Unfinished business, that's what.
Children are the vessels into which adults pour their poison.
How do you defeat terrorism? Don’t be terrorized.
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.
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.
Faith without doubt is addiction
