Language is courage: the ability to conceive a thought, to speak it, and by doing so to make it true.
SALMAN RUSHDIE
Of course, there is nothing intrinsic linking any religion with any act of violence. The crusades don’t prove that Christianity was violent. The Inquisition doesn’t prove that Christianity tortures people. But that Christianity did torture people.
More Salman Rushdie Quotes
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Language is courage: the ability to conceive a thought, to speak it, and by doing so to make it true.
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Those who do not have power over the story that dominates their lives, power to retell it, to rethink it, deconstruct it, joke about it, and change it as times change, truly are powerless, because they cannot think new thoughts.
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Until you know who you are you can’t write.
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Liberate yourself, because no one else is going to liberate you.
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Self-censorship is a lie to yourself; if you are going to be trying to seriously create art, to create literary art, and you decide to hold back, to censor yourself, then you are a fool to yourself and it would be better that you kept your mouth shut and did not speak.
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Perhaps the story you finish is never the one you begin.
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Where there is no belief, there is no blasphemy.
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The moment you declare a set of ideas to be immune from criticism, satire, derision, or contempt, freedom of thought becomes impossible.
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It seems that the right of freedom of speech that was enshrined in numerous constitutions is now under attack by religious institutions.
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No, I don’t think it’s fair to label Islam ‘violent.’ But I will say that to my knowledge, no writer has ever gone into hiding for criticizing the Amish.
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I don’t dictate to anyone what to believe and what not to. And I don’t want that to be dictated to me either.
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What’s real and what’s true aren’t necessarily the same.
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Literature is where I go to explore the highest and lowest places in human society and in the human spirit, where I hope to find not absolute truth but the truth of the tale, of the imagination and of the heart.
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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.
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Free speech is not just free speech for people you admire. It’s also for people who you think of as reprehensible.
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Our lives, our stories, flowed into one another’s, were no longer our own, individual, discrete.
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