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.
SALMAN RUSHDIEMasks beneath masks until suddenly the bare bloodless skull.
More Salman Rushdie Quotes
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It is very, very easy not to be offended by a book. You just have to shut it.
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My horizon’s have shrunk and I have only endings to write.
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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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We are the storytelling animal.
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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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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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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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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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He knew what he knew: that the real world was full of magic, so magical worlds could easily be real.
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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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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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From the beginning men used God to justify the unjustifiable.
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I’ve been worrying about God a little bit lately. It seems like he’s been in a bad mood. And I think it has to do with the quality of lovers he’s been getting.
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If somebody’s trying to shut you up, sing louder, and if possible, better.
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