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More Quotes by Salman Rushdie
Realism can break a writer's heart.
A photograph is a moral decision taken in one eighth of a second.
The only people who see the whole picture,' he murmured, 'are the ones who step out of the frame.
What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.
What's real and what's true aren't necessarily the same.
To understand just one life you have to swallow the world ... do you wonder, then, that I was a heavy child?
Masks beneath masks until suddenly the bare bloodless skull.
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.
Language is courage: the ability to conceive a thought, to speak it, and by doing so to make it true.
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.