One of the strange things about violent and authoritarian regimes is they don’t like the glare of negative publicity.
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.
More Salman Rushdie Quotes
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For every snake, there is a ladder; for every ladder, a snake.
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Literature is where I go to explore the highest and lowest places in human society and in the human spirit, where I hope to find not absolute truth but the truth of the tale, of the imagination and of the heart.
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It seems that the right of freedom of speech that was enshrined in numerous constitutions is now under attack by religious institutions.
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Too many people spouting too many words, and in the end those words will turn to bullets and stones.
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Reality is a question of perspective.
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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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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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I admit it: above all things, I fear absurdity.
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Masks beneath masks until suddenly the bare bloodless skull.
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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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Once you put a thought into the world, it can be disagreed with, but it can’t be unthought.
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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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Where there is no belief, there is no blasphemy.
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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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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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