More Quotes by Salman Rushdie
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.
We all owe death a life.
What's real and what's true aren't necessarily the same.
Realism can break a writer's heart.
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.
Faith without doubt is addiction
A photograph is a moral decision taken in one eighth of a second.
To understand just one life you have to swallow the world ... do you wonder, then, that I was a heavy child?
The only people who see the whole picture,' he murmured, 'are the ones who step out of the frame.
