Salman Rushdie Quotes
"Reality is a question of perspective; the further you get from the past, the more concrete and plausible it seems""I have always thought that religion has nothing useful to teach us""What is real and what is true are not necessarily the same""I've been gradually reclaiming all kinds of freedoms over these years""Our lives teach us who we are""To understand just one life you have to swallow the world""Language is courage: the ability to conceive a thought, to speak it, and by doing so to make it true""A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it; or offer your own version in return""A poet's work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it going to sleep""The only people who see the whole picture are the ones who step out of the frame""What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist""Those who do not have power over the story that dominates their lives—the power to retell it, rethink it, deconstruct it, joke about it, and change it as times change—truly are powerless"
