If you’re offended, it’s your problem.
SALMAN RUSHDIEIf somebody’s trying to shut you up, sing louder, and if possible, better.
More Salman Rushdie Quotes
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What’s real and what’s true aren’t necessarily the same.
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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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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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It matters, it always matters, to name rubbish as rubbish; that to do otherwise is to legitimize 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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But there’s one thing we must all be clear about: terrorism is not the pursuit of legitimate goals by some sort of illegitimate means. Whatever the murderers may be trying to achieve, creating a better world certainly isn’t one of their goals. Instead they are out to murder innocent people.
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We all owe death a life.
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From the beginning men used God to justify the unjustifiable.
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If somebody’s trying to shut you up, sing louder, and if possible, better.
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Two things form the bedrock of any open society – freedom of expression and rule of law. If you don’t have those things, you don’t have a free country.
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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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One of the strange things about violent and authoritarian regimes is they don’t like the glare of negative publicity.
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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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Perhaps the story you finish is never the one you begin.
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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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