Every time you finish a book, you have a terrible feeling that there’s just never going to be another one. But fortunately, so far, the next one has always shown up.
SALMAN RUSHDIE
What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.
More Salman Rushdie Quotes
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Every time you finish a book, you have a terrible feeling that there’s just never going to be another one. But fortunately, so far, the next one has always shown up.
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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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From the beginning men used God to justify the unjustifiable.
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Our lives, our stories, flowed into one another’s, were no longer our own, individual, discrete.
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What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.
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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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What one writer can make in the solitude of one room is something no power can easily destroy.
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To understand just one life you have to swallow the world do you wonder, then, that I was a heavy child?
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So India’s problem turns out to be the world’s problem. What happened in India has happened in God’s name. The problem’s name is God.
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People can do bad things with free speech as well as good. You have to defend the Ku Klux Klan as well as Martin Luther King. It’s like that. If you’re going to defend the principle, then you have to defend people who use the principle badly.
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Literature is the one place in any society where, within the secrecy of our own heads, we can hear voices talking about everything in every possible way.
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Respect for religion’ has become a code phrase meaning ‘fear of religion.’ Religions, like all other ideas, deserve criticism, satire, and, yes, our fearless disrespect.
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We cannot allow religious hooligans to place limiting points on thought.
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You can’t have modern states based on ideas which have been out of date for a thousand years.
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Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself.
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