One of the strange things about violent and authoritarian regimes is they don’t like the glare of negative publicity.
SALMAN RUSHDIEThe lessons one learns at school are not always the ones the school thinks it’s teaching.
More Salman Rushdie Quotes
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What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.
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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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Too many people spouting too many words, and in the end those words will turn to bullets and stones.
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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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If you actually want to change your world, there is a better way of doing it than blowing yourself up.
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Masks beneath masks until suddenly the bare bloodless skull.
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Where there is no belief, there is no blasphemy.
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Our lives, our stories, flowed into one another’s, were no longer our own, individual, discrete.
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Faith without doubt is addiction.
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I write books I’d enjoy reading, I’m the reader standing behind my shoulder.
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What’s real and what’s true aren’t necessarily the same.
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We were language’s magpies by nature, stealing whatever sounded bright and shiny.
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The world, somebody wrote, is the place we prove real by dying in it.
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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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You can find shame in every house, burning in an ashtray, hanging framed upon a wall, covering a bed. But nobody notices it any more.
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We cannot allow religious hooligans to place limiting points on thought.
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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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We are the storytelling animal.
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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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In the cookie of life, friends are the chocolate chips.
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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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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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In the waking dreams our societies permit, in our myths, our arts, our songs, we celebrate the nonbelongers, the different ones, the outlaws, the freaks.
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Between the adored and the adorer falls the shadow.
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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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Stories in families are colossally important. Every family has stories: some funny, some proud, some embarrassing, some shameful. Knowing them is proof of belonging to the family.
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