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More Quotes by Salman Rushdie
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.
To understand just one life you have to swallow the world ... do you wonder, then, that I was a heavy child?
From the beginning men used God to justify the unjustifiable.
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.
What can't be cured must be endured.
What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.
Now I know what a ghost is. Unfinished business, that's what.
Language is courage: the ability to conceive a thought, to speak it, and by doing so to make it true.
Masks beneath masks until suddenly the bare bloodless skull.
The only people who see the whole picture,' he murmured, 'are the ones who step out of the frame.
