We were language’s magpies by nature, stealing whatever sounded bright and shiny.
SALMAN RUSHDIEWe were language’s magpies by nature, stealing whatever sounded bright and shiny.
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What’s real and what’s true aren’t necessarily the same.
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Ignorantly is how we all fall in love; for it is a kind of fall. Closing our eyes, we leap from that cliff in hope of a soft landing. Nor is it always soft; but still, without that leap nobody comes to life.
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My horizon’s have shrunk and I have only endings to write.
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If somebody’s trying to shut you up, sing louder, and if possible, better.
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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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Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself.
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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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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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Until you know who you are you can’t write.
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Between the adored and the adorer falls the shadow.
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We all owe death a life.
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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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For every snake, there is a ladder; for every ladder, a snake.
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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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Reality is a question of perspective.
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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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What kind of Christmas present would Jesus ask Santa for?
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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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Liberate yourself, because no one else is going to liberate you.
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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.
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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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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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If you take a look at history, you will find that the understanding of what is good and evil has always existed before the individual religions. The religions were only invented by people afterwards, in order to express this idea.
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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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Too many people spouting too many words, and in the end those words will turn to bullets and stones.
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