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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.
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.
What's real and what's true aren't necessarily the same.
From the beginning men used God to justify the unjustifiable.
Children are the vessels into which adults pour their poison.
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.
Now I know what a ghost is. Unfinished business, that's what.
A photograph is a moral decision taken in one eighth of a second.
