He knew what he knew: that the real world was full of magic, so magical worlds could easily be real.
SALMAN RUSHDIE
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.
More Salman Rushdie Quotes
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You can’t have modern states based on ideas which have been out of date for a thousand years.
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Respect for religion’ has become a code phrase meaning ‘fear of religion.’ Religions, like all other ideas, deserve criticism, satire, and, yes, our fearless disrespect.
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Our lives, our stories, flowed into one another’s, were no longer our own, individual, discrete.
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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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If somebody’s trying to shut you up, sing louder, and if possible, better.
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We were language’s magpies by nature, stealing whatever sounded bright and shiny.
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Between the adored and the adorer falls the shadow.
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For every snake, there is a ladder; for every ladder, a snake.
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Literature is the one place in any society where, within the secrecy of our own heads, we can hear voices talking about everything in every possible way.
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An attack upon our ability to tell stories is not just censorship – it is a crime against our nature as human beings.
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What kind of Christmas present would Jesus ask Santa for?
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We are the storytelling animal.
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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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My horizon’s have shrunk and I have only endings to write.
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We have come to think of taking offence as a fundamental right. We value very little more highly than our rage, which gives us, in our opinion, the moral high ground. From there we can shoot down at our enemies and inflict heavy fatalities.
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