If somebody’s trying to shut you up, sing louder, and if possible, better.
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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Too many people spouting too many words, and in the end those words will turn to bullets and stones.
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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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Self-censorship is a lie to yourself; if you are going to be trying to seriously create art, to create literary art, and you decide to hold back, to censor yourself, then you are a fool to yourself and it would be better that you kept your mouth shut and did not speak.
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In the waking dreams our societies permit, in our myths, our arts, our songs, we celebrate the nonbelongers, the different ones, the outlaws, the freaks.
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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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Something was badly amiss with the spiritual life of the planet, Too many demons inside people claiming to believe in God.
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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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I admit it: above all things, I fear absurdity.
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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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An attack upon our ability to tell stories is not just censorship – it is a crime against our nature as human beings.
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A 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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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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The world, somebody wrote, is the place we prove real by dying in it.
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Liberate yourself, because no one else is going to liberate you.
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We cannot allow religious hooligans to place limiting points on thought.
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