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.
A photograph is a moral decision taken in one eighth of a second.
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.
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.
We all owe death a life.
Faith without doubt is addiction
How do you defeat terrorism? Don’t be terrorized.
