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More Quotes by Salman Rushdie
From the beginning men used God to justify the unjustifiable.
What's real and what's true aren't necessarily the same.
Masks beneath masks until suddenly the bare bloodless skull.
Now I know what a ghost is. Unfinished business, that's what.
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?
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.
We all owe death a life.
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.
What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.