Too many people spouting too many words, and in the end those words will turn to bullets and stones.
SALMAN RUSHDIEUntil you know who you are you can’t write.
More Salman Rushdie Quotes
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I didn’t become a writer to write about me.
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The lessons one learns at school are not always the ones the school thinks it’s teaching.
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If you’re offended, it’s your problem.
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Where there is no belief, there is no blasphemy.
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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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It is very, very easy not to be offended by a book. You just have to shut it.
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Free speech is not just free speech for people you admire. It’s also for people who you think of as reprehensible.
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Perhaps the story you finish is never the one you begin.
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Faith without doubt is addiction.
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What I do think is evident is that those countries in the world where Islamic extremism has recovered the most power, those are also the countries which are most disliked.
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I admit it: above all things, I fear absurdity.
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Religion, a mediaeval form of unreason, when combined with modern weaponry becomes a real threat to our freedoms. This religious totalitarianism has caused a deadly mutation in the heart of Islam and we see the tragic consequences in Paris today.
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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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Literature is the one place in any society where, within the secrecy of our own heads, we can hear voices talking about everything in every possible way.
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Our lives, our stories, flowed into one another’s, were no longer our own, individual, discrete.
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