Something was badly amiss with the spiritual life of the planet, Too many demons inside people claiming to believe in God.
SALMAN RUSHDIEMasks beneath masks until suddenly the bare bloodless skull.
More Salman Rushdie Quotes
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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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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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Reality is a question of perspective.
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If you’re offended, it’s your problem.
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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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The world, somebody wrote, is the place we prove real by dying in it.
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What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.
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It matters, it always matters, to name rubbish as rubbish; that to do otherwise is to legitimize it.
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Free speech is not just free speech for people you admire. It’s also for people who you think of as reprehensible.
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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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Among the great struggles of man-good/evil, reason/unreason, etc.-there is also this mighty conflict between the fantasy of Home and the fantasy of Away, the dream of roots and the mirage of the journey.
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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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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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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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