To understand just one life, you have to... by Salman Rushdie | We Heart Quotes

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To understand just one life, you have to swallow the world.

- Salman Rushdie

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A poet's work is to name the unnamable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world and stop it from going to sleep.

- Salman Rushdie

Name Work World

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.

- Salman Rushdie

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

- Salman Rushdie

Our lives are not what we deserve; they are, let us agree, in many ways deficient.

- Salman Rushdie

Life

Most of what matters in your life takes place in your absence.

- Salman Rushdie

Children are the vessels into which adults pour their poison.

- Salman Rushdie

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