Liberate yourself, because no one else is going to liberate you.
SALMAN RUSHDIEWhere there is no belief, there is no blasphemy.
More Salman Rushdie Quotes
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If somebody’s trying to shut you up, sing louder, and if possible, better.
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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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I think if we wish to live in any kind of a moral universe, we must hold the perpetrators of violence responsible for the violence they perpetrate. It’s very simple. The criminal is responsible for the crime.
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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 is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.
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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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Until you know who you are you can’t write.
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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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I stand with Charlie Hebdo, as we all must, to defend the art of satire.
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Masks beneath masks until suddenly the bare bloodless skull.
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I didn’t become a writer to write about me.
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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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We are the storytelling animal.
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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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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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Even when things are at their worst, there’s a little voice in your head saying, ‘Good story!’
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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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We all owe death a life.
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Two things form the bedrock of any open society – freedom of expression and rule of law. If you don’t have those things, you don’t have a free country.
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Reality is a question of perspective.
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We were language’s magpies by nature, stealing whatever sounded bright and shiny.
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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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For every snake, there is a ladder; for every ladder, a snake.
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I admit it: above all things, I fear absurdity.
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Of course, there is nothing intrinsic linking any religion with any act of violence. The crusades don’t prove that Christianity was violent. The Inquisition doesn’t prove that Christianity tortures people. But that Christianity did torture people.
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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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