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If somebody’s trying to shut you up, sing louder, and if possible, better.

Salman Rushdie

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.
SALMAN RUSHDIE

Family Friendship Important Inheritance Myself
If you take a look at history, you will find that the understanding of what is good and evil has always existed before the individual religions. The religions were only invented by people afterwards, in order to express this idea.
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Evil Existence Expression Goodness History Ideas People Understand
Every time you finish a book, you have a terrible feeling that there’s just never going to be another one. But fortunately, so far, the next one has always shown up.
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Book Fortunate Terrible Time Yourself
Language is courage: the ability to conceive a thought, to speak it, and by doing so to make it true.
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Ability Courage Language Talk Thinking True
Once you put a thought into the world, it can be disagreed with, but it can’t be unthought.
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Thinking World Yourself
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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Country Evidence Hate Power Recover Thinking World
How do you defeat terrorism? Don’t be terrorized.
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Deep Defeat Fear Terrorism Yourself
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.
SALMAN RUSHDIE

Criticism Deserve Fear Religion Respect
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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Criticism Hide Knowledge Thinking Violence Writing
My horizon’s have shrunk and I have only endings to write.
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End Limitation Myself Restriction Write
He knew what he knew: that the real world was full of magic, so magical worlds could easily be real.
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Himself Magic Reality World
Where there is no belief, there is no blasphemy.
SALMAN RUSHDIE

Belief One Liner
It is very, very easy not to be offended by a book. You just have to shut it.
SALMAN RUSHDIE

Book Easy Yourself
If somebody’s trying to shut you up, sing louder, and if possible, better.
SALMAN RUSHDIE

Better Loud Possible Sing Try Yourself
For every snake, there is a ladder; for every ladder, a snake.
SALMAN RUSHDIE

Advice Game Ladder Life Snake
What kind of Christmas present would Jesus ask Santa for?
SALMAN RUSHDIE

Funny Kind Present

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