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Salman Rushdie

I didn’t become a writer to write about me.
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Myself Writing
What one writer can make in the solitude of one room is something no power can easily destroy.
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Destroy Easy Oneself Power Room Solitude Writing
I have never really thought of myself as a writer about religion. And I think one of the things that happened to me as a result of all that is that I think it did for some people, many people, obscure the kind of writer that I actually am.
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Community Myself People Religious Result Writing
Perhaps the story you finish is never the one you begin.
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Beginning End Story Yourself
For every snake, there is a ladder; for every ladder, a snake.
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Advice Game Ladder Life Snake
Between the adored and the adorer falls the shadow.
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Admire Fall Fame Shadow
My horizon’s have shrunk and I have only endings to write.
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End Limitation Myself Restriction Write
I write books I’d enjoy reading, I’m the reader standing behind my shoulder.
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Book Myself Reading Writing
We are the storytelling animal.
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Animal Story Talk
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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Bad Defense Freedom People Principle Yourself
Even when things are at their worst, there’s a little voice in your head saying, ‘Good story!’
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Goodness Head Story Voice Worst
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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Change Domination Live Power Story Thinking Time True
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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Fake Mistake Name Poet Sleep Stop Work World
Religion is responsible for a lot of the problems in the history of the world and it’s not something that I practice or recommend, but to each his own.
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History Kind Man Problem Religion Responsible
It is very, very easy not to be offended by a book. You just have to shut it.
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Book Easy Yourself
What kind of Christmas present would Jesus ask Santa for?
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Funny Kind Present

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