For every snake, there is a ladder; for every ladder, a snake.
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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.
More Salman Rushdie Quotes
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For every snake, there is a ladder; for every ladder, a snake.
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Stories in families are colossally important. Every family has stories: some funny, some proud, some embarrassing, some shameful. Knowing them is proof of belonging to the family.
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In the cookie of life, friends are the chocolate chips.
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Masks beneath masks until suddenly the bare bloodless skull.
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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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It is very, very easy not to be offended by a book. You just have to shut it.
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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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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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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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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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We are the storytelling animal.
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One of the things a writer is for is to say the unsayable, speak the unspeakable and ask difficult questions.
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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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My horizon’s have shrunk and I have only endings to write.
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I didn’t become a writer to write about me.
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