I didn’t become a writer to write about me.
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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You can’t have modern states based on ideas which have been out of date for a thousand years.
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If somebody’s trying to shut you up, sing louder, and if possible, better.
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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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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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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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One of the things a writer is for is to say the unsayable, speak the unspeakable and ask difficult questions.
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No, I don’t think it’s fair to label Islam ‘violent.’ But I will say that to my knowledge, no writer has ever gone into hiding for criticizing the Amish.
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My horizon’s have shrunk and I have only endings to write.
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In the cookie of life, friends are the chocolate chips.
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I stand with Charlie Hebdo, as we all must, to defend the art of satire.
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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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Faith without doubt is addiction.
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What kind of Christmas present would Jesus ask Santa for?
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Liberate yourself, because no one else is going to liberate you.
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The world, somebody wrote, is the place we prove real by dying in it.
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