I admit it: above all things, I fear absurdity.
SALMAN RUSHDIEWe are the storytelling animal.
More Salman Rushdie Quotes
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What’s real and what’s true aren’t necessarily the same.
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You can’t have modern states based on ideas which have been out of date for a thousand years.
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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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If you’re offended, it’s your problem.
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Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself.
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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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I write books I’d enjoy reading, I’m the reader standing behind my shoulder.
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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 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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In the cookie of life, friends are the chocolate chips.
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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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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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The moment you declare a set of ideas to be immune from criticism, satire, derision, or contempt, freedom of thought becomes impossible.
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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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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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