What kind of Christmas present would Jesus ask Santa for?
SALMAN RUSHDIEWe have come to think of taking offence as a fundamental right. We value very little more highly than our rage, which gives us, in our opinion, the moral high ground. From there we can shoot down at our enemies and inflict heavy fatalities.
More Salman Rushdie Quotes
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I didn’t become a writer to write about me.
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When a reader falls in love with a book, it leaves its essence inside him, like radioactive fallout in an arable field, and after that there are certain crops that will no longer grow in him, while other, stranger, more fantastic growths may occasionally be produced.
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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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Religion is responsible for a lot of the problems in the history of the world and it’s not something that I practice or recommend, but to each his own.
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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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In the cookie of life, friends are the chocolate chips.
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Our lives, our stories, flowed into one another’s, were no longer our own, individual, discrete.
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But there’s one thing we must all be clear about: terrorism is not the pursuit of legitimate goals by some sort of illegitimate means. Whatever the murderers may be trying to achieve, creating a better world certainly isn’t one of their goals. Instead they are out to murder innocent people.
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Between the adored and the adorer falls the shadow.
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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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We all owe death a life.
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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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For every snake, there is a ladder; for every ladder, a snake.
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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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