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.
SALMAN RUSHDIEThe world, somebody wrote, is the place we prove real by dying in it.
More Salman Rushdie Quotes
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Until you know who you are you can’t write.
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I don’t dictate to anyone what to believe and what not to. And I don’t want that to be dictated to me either.
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Where there is no belief, there is no blasphemy.
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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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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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How do you defeat terrorism? Don’t be terrorized.
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What kind of Christmas present would Jesus ask Santa for?
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I have always thought that these two ways of talking, one is the fantastic, the fable, the fairy tale, and the other being history, the scholarly study of what happened, I think they’re both amazing ways to understand human nature.
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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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One of the strange things about violent and authoritarian regimes is they don’t like the glare of negative publicity.
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Faith without doubt is addiction.
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We are the storytelling animal.
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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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I write books I’d enjoy reading, I’m the reader standing behind my shoulder.
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Perhaps the story you finish is never the one you begin.
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