To understand just one life you have to swallow the world do you wonder, then, that I was a heavy child?
SALMAN RUSHDIEI don’t dictate to anyone what to believe and what not to. And I don’t want that to be dictated to me either.
More Salman Rushdie Quotes
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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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The lessons one learns at school are not always the ones the school thinks it’s teaching.
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Even when things are at their worst, there’s a little voice in your head saying, ‘Good story!’
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Faith without doubt is addiction.
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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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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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You can’t have modern states based on ideas which have been out of date for a thousand years.
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I didn’t become a writer to write about me.
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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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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 is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.
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I stand with Charlie Hebdo, as we all must, to defend the art of satire.
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We have come to think of taking offence as a fundamental right. We value very little more highly than our rage, which gives us, in our opinion, the moral high ground. From there we can shoot down at our enemies and inflict heavy fatalities.
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I have never really thought of myself as a writer about religion. And I think one of the things that happened to me as a result of all that is that I think it did for some people, many people, obscure the kind of writer that I actually am.
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Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself.
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