What’s real and what’s true aren’t necessarily the same.
SALMAN RUSHDIEIn the cookie of life, friends are the chocolate chips.
More Salman Rushdie Quotes
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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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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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One of the things a writer is for is to say the unsayable, speak the unspeakable and ask difficult questions.
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Perhaps the story you finish is never the one you begin.
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He knew what he knew: that the real world was full of magic, so magical worlds could easily be real.
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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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I write books I’d enjoy reading, I’m the reader standing behind my shoulder.
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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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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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If you actually want to change your world, there is a better way of doing it than blowing yourself up.
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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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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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Among the great struggles of man-good/evil, reason/unreason, etc.-there is also this mighty conflict between the fantasy of Home and the fantasy of Away, the dream of roots and the mirage of the journey.
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Friendships are the family we make – not the one we inherit. I’ve always been someone to whom friendship, elective affinities, is as important as family.
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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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Too many people spouting too many words, and in the end those words will turn to bullets and stones.
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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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Only the foolish, blinded by language’s conventions, think of fire as red or gold. Fire is blue at it’s melancholy rim, green in it’s envious heart. It may burn white, or even, in it’s greatest rages, black.
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If somebody’s trying to shut you up, sing louder, and if possible, better.
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We are the storytelling animal.
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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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Once you put a thought into the world, it can be disagreed with, but it can’t be unthought.
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I didn’t become a writer to write about me.
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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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Language is courage: the ability to conceive a thought, to speak it, and by doing so to make it true.
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What kind of Christmas present would Jesus ask Santa for?
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