Reality is a question of perspective.
SALMAN RUSHDIEStories 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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It matters, it always matters, to name rubbish as rubbish; that to do otherwise is to legitimize it.
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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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Between the adored and the adorer falls the shadow.
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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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To understand just one life you have to swallow the world do you wonder, then, that I was a heavy child?
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Every time you finish a book, you have a terrible feeling that there’s just never going to be another one. But fortunately, so far, the next one has always shown up.
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If you’re offended, it’s your problem.
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If somebody’s trying to shut you up, sing louder, and if possible, better.
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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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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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One of the strange things about violent and authoritarian regimes is they don’t like the glare of negative publicity.
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Even when things are at their worst, there’s a little voice in your head saying, ‘Good story!’
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Where there is no belief, there is no blasphemy.
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For every snake, there is a ladder; for every ladder, a snake.
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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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