Until you know who you are you can’t write.
SALMAN RUSHDIEA poet’s work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it going to sleep.
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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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I didn’t become a writer to write about me.
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We cannot allow religious hooligans to place limiting points on thought.
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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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He knew what he knew: that the real world was full of magic, so magical worlds could easily be real.
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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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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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What one writer can make in the solitude of one room is something no power can easily destroy.
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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.
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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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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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Masks beneath masks until suddenly the bare bloodless skull.
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The only people who see the whole picture,’ he murmured, ‘are the ones who step out of the frame.
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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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