The only people who see the whole picture,’ he murmured, ‘are the ones who step out of the frame.
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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Masks beneath masks until suddenly the bare bloodless skull.
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We are the storytelling animal.
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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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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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When a reader falls in love with a book, it leaves its essence inside him, like radioactive fallout in an arable field, and after that there are certain crops that will no longer grow in him, while other, stranger, more fantastic growths may occasionally be produced.
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He knew what he knew: that the real world was full of magic, so magical worlds could easily be real.
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We all owe death a life.
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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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In the cookie of life, friends are the chocolate chips.
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If somebody’s trying to shut you up, sing louder, and if possible, better.
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If you’re offended, it’s your problem.
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I write books I’d enjoy reading, I’m the reader standing behind my shoulder.
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What one writer can make in the solitude of one room is something no power can easily destroy.
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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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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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We cannot allow religious hooligans to place limiting points on thought.
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A poet’s work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it going to sleep.
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Faith without doubt is addiction.
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Science fiction is always a vehicle for ideas. It’s the form which allows either movies or books to be an exploration of how we should live.
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Once you put a thought into the world, it can be disagreed with, but it can’t be unthought.
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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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What’s real and what’s true aren’t necessarily the same.
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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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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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Language is courage: the ability to conceive a thought, to speak it, and by doing so to make it true.
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