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 RUSHDIEIt is very, very easy not to be offended by a book. You just have to shut it.
More Salman Rushdie Quotes
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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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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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What one writer can make in the solitude of one room is something no power can easily destroy.
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How do you defeat terrorism? Don’t be terrorized.
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What’s real and what’s true aren’t necessarily the same.
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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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Until you know who you are you can’t write.
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From the beginning men used God to justify the unjustifiable.
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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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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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Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself.
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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.
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An attack upon our ability to tell stories is not just censorship – it is a crime against our nature as human beings.
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Masks beneath masks until suddenly the bare bloodless skull.
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One of the strange things about violent and authoritarian regimes is they don’t like the glare of negative publicity.
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