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More Quotes by Salman Rushdie
The only people who see the whole picture,' he murmured, 'are the ones who step out of the frame.
What's real and what's true aren't necessarily the same.
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.
Most of what matters in our lives takes place in our absence.
How do you defeat terrorism? Don’t be terrorized.
To understand just one life you have to swallow the world ... do you wonder, then, that I was a heavy child?
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.
Realism can break a writer's heart.
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.
Now I know what a ghost is. Unfinished business, that's what.
