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.
SALMAN RUSHDIESomething was badly amiss with the spiritual life of the planet, Too many demons inside people claiming to believe in God.
More Salman Rushdie Quotes
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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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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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But there’s one thing we must all be clear about: terrorism is not the pursuit of legitimate goals by some sort of illegitimate means. Whatever the murderers may be trying to achieve, creating a better world certainly isn’t one of their goals. Instead they are out to murder innocent people.
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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 didn’t become a writer to write about me.
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If you’re offended, it’s your problem.
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If you take a look at history, you will find that the understanding of what is good and evil has always existed before the individual religions. The religions were only invented by people afterwards, in order to express this idea.
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Perhaps the story you finish is never the one you begin.
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Science fiction is always a vehicle for ideas. It’s the form which allows either movies or books to be an exploration of how we should live.
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From the beginning men used God to justify the unjustifiable.
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We were language’s magpies by nature, stealing whatever sounded bright and shiny.
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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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Religion, a mediaeval form of unreason, when combined with modern weaponry becomes a real threat to our freedoms. This religious totalitarianism has caused a deadly mutation in the heart of Islam and we see the tragic consequences in Paris today.
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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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In the cookie of life, friends are the chocolate chips.
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The world, somebody wrote, is the place we prove real by dying in it.
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Something was badly amiss with the spiritual life of the planet, Too many demons inside people claiming to believe in God.
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Where there is no belief, there is no blasphemy.
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Once you put a thought into the world, it can be disagreed with, but it can’t be unthought.
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Our lives, our stories, flowed into one another’s, were no longer our own, individual, discrete.
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The only people who see the whole picture,’ he murmured, ‘are the ones who step out of the frame.
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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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It is very, very easy not to be offended by a book. You just have to shut it.
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Ignorantly is how we all fall in love; for it is a kind of fall. Closing our eyes, we leap from that cliff in hope of a soft landing. Nor is it always soft; but still, without that leap nobody comes to life.
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How do you defeat terrorism? Don’t be terrorized.
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