We all owe death a life.
SALMAN RUSHDIEUntil you know who you are you can’t write.
More Salman Rushdie Quotes
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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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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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Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself.
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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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How do you defeat terrorism? Don’t be terrorized.
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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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One of the things a writer is for is to say the unsayable, speak the unspeakable and ask difficult questions.
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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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We are the storytelling animal.
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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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What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.
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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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Our lives, our stories, flowed into one another’s, were no longer our own, individual, discrete.
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Reality is a question of perspective.
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From the beginning men used God to justify the unjustifiable.
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