Until you know who you are you can’t write.
SALMAN RUSHDIEIf somebody’s trying to shut you up, sing louder, and if possible, better.
More Salman Rushdie Quotes
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Faith without doubt is addiction.
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The world, somebody wrote, is the place we prove real by dying in it.
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How do you defeat terrorism? Don’t be terrorized.
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Masks beneath masks until suddenly the bare bloodless skull.
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Literature is the one place in any society where, within the secrecy of our own heads, we can hear voices talking about everything in every possible way.
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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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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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Those who do not have power over the story that dominates their lives, power to retell it, to rethink it, deconstruct it, joke about it, and change it as times change, truly are powerless, because they cannot think new thoughts.
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I didn’t become a writer to write about me.
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For every snake, there is a ladder; for every ladder, a snake.
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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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Too many people spouting too many words, and in the end those words will turn to bullets and stones.
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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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What’s real and what’s true aren’t necessarily the same.
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Ignorantly is how we all fall in love; for it is a kind of fall. Closing our eyes, we leap from that cliff in hope of a soft landing. Nor is it always soft; but still, without that leap nobody comes to life.
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