11 beautiful quotes by Salman Rushdie. Click any quote to view, download and share it as an image.
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Salman Rushdie
“From the beginning men used God to justify the unjustifiable.”
“A poet's work . . . to name the unnamable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world and stop...
“Realism can break a writer's heart.”
“Memory's truth, because memory has its own special kind. It selects, eliminates, alters, exaggerates, minimizes, glorif...
“How do you defeat terrorism? Don’t be terrorized.”
“So India’s problem turns out to be the world’s problem. What happened in India has happened in God’s name.The problem’s...
“Go for broke. Always try and do too much. Dispense with safety nets. Take a deep breath before you begin talking. Aim f...
“Free societies...are societies in motion, and with motion comes tension, dissent, friction. Free people strike sparks, ...
“Books choose their authors; the act of creation is not entirely a rational and conscious one.”
“When a reader falls in love with a book, it leaves its essence inside him, like radioactive fallout in an arable field,...
“No people whose word for 'yesterday' is the same as their word for 'tomorrow' can be said to have a firm grip on the t...
