What one writer can make in the solitude of one room is something no power can easily destroy.
SALMAN RUSHDIEIf somebody’s trying to shut you up, sing louder, and if possible, better.
More Salman Rushdie Quotes
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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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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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If you actually want to change your world, there is a better way of doing it than blowing yourself up.
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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 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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How do you defeat terrorism? Don’t be terrorized.
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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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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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Perhaps the story you finish is never the one you begin.
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Only the foolish, blinded by language’s conventions, think of fire as red or gold. Fire is blue at it’s melancholy rim, green in it’s envious heart. It may burn white, or even, in it’s greatest rages, black.
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Respect for religion’ has become a code phrase meaning ‘fear of religion.’ Religions, like all other ideas, deserve criticism, satire, and, yes, our fearless disrespect.
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In the waking dreams our societies permit, in our myths, our arts, our songs, we celebrate the nonbelongers, the different ones, the outlaws, the freaks.
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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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Something was badly amiss with the spiritual life of the planet, Too many demons inside people claiming to believe in God.
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Of course, there is nothing intrinsic linking any religion with any act of violence. The crusades don’t prove that Christianity was violent. The Inquisition doesn’t prove that Christianity tortures people. But that Christianity did torture people.
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