I stand with Charlie Hebdo, as we all must, to defend the art of satire.
SALMAN RUSHDIEUntil you know who you are you can’t write.
More Salman Rushdie Quotes
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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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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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I’ve been worrying about God a little bit lately. It seems like he’s been in a bad mood. And I think it has to do with the quality of lovers he’s been getting.
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My horizon’s have shrunk and I have only endings to write.
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The world, somebody wrote, is the place we prove real by dying in it.
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Where there is no belief, there is no blasphemy.
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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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For every snake, there is a ladder; for every ladder, a snake.
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I have always thought that these two ways of talking, one is the fantastic, the fable, the fairy tale, and the other being history, the scholarly study of what happened, I think they’re both amazing ways to understand human nature.
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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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Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself.
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The lessons one learns at school are not always the ones the school thinks it’s teaching.
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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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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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In the cookie of life, friends are the chocolate chips.
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