“What's real and what's true aren't necessarily the same.”

―  Salman Rushdie

“Perhaps the story you finish is never the one you begin.”

―  Salman Rushdie

“Most of what matters in our lives takes place in our absence.”

―  Salman Rushdie

“A photograph is a moral decision taken in one eighth of a second.”

―  Salman Rushdie

“From the beginning men used God to justify the unjustifiable.”

―  Salman Rushdie

“Now I know what a ghost is. Unfinished business, that's what.”

―  Salman Rushdie

“What can't be cured must be endured.”

―  Salman Rushdie

“Language is courage: the ability to conceive a thought, to speak it, and by doing so to make it true.”

―  Salman Rushdie

“The only people who see the whole picture,' he murmured, 'are the ones who step out of the frame.”

―  Salman Rushdie

“The world, somebody wrote, is the place we prove real by dying in it.”

―  Salman Rushdie

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