"Masks beneath masks until suddenly the bare bloodless…" — Salman Rushdie

"Masks beneath masks until suddenly the bare bloodless skull."

— Salman Rushdie

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482 Quotes by Salman Rushdie

Salman Rushdie has 482 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

The only privilege literature deserves - and this privilege it requires in order to exist - is the privilege of…
The liveliness of literature lies in its exceptionality, in being the individual, idiosyncratic vision of one human being, in which,…
Five mysteries hold the keys to the unseen: the act of love, and the birth of a baby, and the…
There needs to be a thorough examination, by Muslims everywhere, of why it is that the faith they love breeds…
Live on, survive, for the earth gives forth wonders. It may swallow your heart, but the wonders keep on coming.…
Good advice is rarer than rubies.
In India, as elsewhere in our darkening world, religion is the poison in the blood. Where religion intervenes, mere innocence…
For a fellow who's not to much to look at, you have the instincts of a champion.
A man who invents himself needs someone to believe in him... Not only the need to be believed in, but…
Free speech is life itself.
After a long, hopeless war, people will settle for peace, at almost any price.
If you want to tell the untold stories, if you want to give voice to the voiceless, you've got to…

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More Bare Quotes

This quote is filed under Bare Quotes, one of 613 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:

Bald as the bare mountain tops are bald, with a baldness full of grandeur. — Matthew Arnold
I had never done anything with blue screen before, or prosthetics, or anything like that. Lord of the Rings was… — Cate Blanchett
Let us learn to appreciate there will be times when the trees will be bare, and look forward to the… — Anton Chekhov
We are stripped bare by the curse of plenty. — Winston Churchill
I usually get myself into situations that cause sparks. I mean I'm a girl that likes the storms. I love… — Tori Amos
Between the fear that something would happen and the hope that still it wouldn't, there is much more space than… — Ivo Andric
I'm a minimalist. I don't really need much to enjoy a good holiday - just my family and the bare… — Jean Reno
Babies haven't any hair; Old men's heads are just as bare; between the cradle and the grave lie a haircut… — Samuel Hoffenstein
An unsurpassed master of the art of laying bare the inmost core of spiritual truth. — Unknown Author
The wind that makes music in November corn is in a hurry. The stalks hum, the loose husks whisk skyward… — Aldo Leopold
In the entire circle of the year there are no days so delightful as those of a fine October, when… — Alexander Smith
The proximity of an army causes prices to go up; and high prices cause people's substance to be drained away.… — Sun Tzu

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