Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous
old Salman Rushdie quotes, Salman Rushdie sayings, and Salman Rushdie proverbs, collected over the years from a variety
of sources.'
A photograph is a moral decision taken in one eighth of a second.Salman Rushdie
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Free speech is life itself.Salman Rushdie
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There is no such thing as perfect security, only varying levels of insecurity.Salman Rushdie
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Literature is where I go to explore the highest and lowest places in human society and in the human spirit, where I hope to find not absolute truth but the truth of the tale, of the imagination and of the heart.Salman Rushdie
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Literature is the one place in any society where, within the secrecy of our own heads, we can hear voices talking about everything in every possible way.Salman Rushdie
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What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.Salman Rushdie
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Anyone who reads my work will see that there are often difficult relationships between fathers and sons.Salman Rushdie
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A photograph is a moral decision taken in one eighth of a second.Salman Rushdie
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For every snake, there is a ladder; for every ladder,a snake.Salman Rushdie
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When you throw everything up in the air anything becomes possible.Salman Rushdie
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A mature society understands that at the heart of democracy is argument.Salman Rushdie
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A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it; or offer your own version in return.Salman Rushdie
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A photograph is a moral decision taken in one eighth of a second.Salman Rushdie
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Shame is like everything else; live with it for long enough and it becomes part of the furniture.Salman Rushdie
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One of the extraordinary things about human events is that the unthinkable becomes thinkable.Salman Rushdie
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Rage made you the creature of those who enraged you, it gave them too much power. Rage killed the mind, and now more than ever the mind needed to live, to find a way of rising above the mindlessness.Salman Rushdie
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From the beginning men used God to justify the unjustifiable.Salman Rushdie
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Go for broke. Always try and do too much. Dispense with safety nets. Take a deep breath before you beginSalman Rushdie
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Anyone who reads my work will see that there are often difficult relationships between fathers and sons.Salman Rushdie
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When you throw everything up in the air anything becomes possible.Salman Rushdie
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Most of what matters in your life takes place in your absence.Salman Rushdie
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Cruelty is not a literary value.Salman Rushdie
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Realism can break a writer's heart.Salman Rushdie
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In the cookie of life, friends are the chocolate chips.Salman Rushdie
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They lived in a great city, a metropolis of many narratives that converged briefly and then separated for ever, discovering their different dooms in that crowd of stories through which all of us, following our own destinies, had to push and shove to find our way through, or out.Salman Rushdie
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There is nothing like a war for the reinvention of lives.Salman Rushdie
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A sigh isn't just a sigh. We inhale the world and breathe out meaning. While we can. While we can.Salman Rushdie
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Sometimes legends make reality, and become more useful than the facts.Salman Rushdie
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Memory's truth, because memory has its own special kind. It selects, eliminates, alters, exaggerates, minimizes, glorifies, and vilifies also; but in the end it creates its own reality, its heterogeneous but usually coherent version of events; and no sane human being ever trusts someone else's version more than his own.Salman Rushdie
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If power was a a cry, then human lives were lived in the echo of the cries of others.Salman Rushdie