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More Quotes by Salman Rushdie
Most of what matters in our lives takes place in our absence.
Masks beneath masks until suddenly the bare bloodless skull.
Now I know what a ghost is. Unfinished business, that's what.
What can't be cured must be endured.
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.
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.
Language is courage: the ability to conceive a thought, to speak it, and by doing so to make it true.
What's real and what's true aren't necessarily the same.
Realism can break a writer's heart.
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.
