Once you put a thought into the world, it can be disagreed with, but it can’t be unthought.
SALMAN RUSHDIEIt is very, very easy not to be offended by a book. You just have to shut it.
More Salman Rushdie Quotes
-
-
What kind of Christmas present would Jesus ask Santa for?
SALMAN RUSHDIE -
I think if we wish to live in any kind of a moral universe, we must hold the perpetrators of violence responsible for the violence they perpetrate. It’s very simple. The criminal is responsible for the crime.
SALMAN RUSHDIE -
The lessons one learns at school are not always the ones the school thinks it’s teaching.
SALMAN RUSHDIE -
What’s real and what’s true aren’t necessarily the same.
SALMAN RUSHDIE -
What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.
SALMAN RUSHDIE -
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.
SALMAN RUSHDIE -
It matters, it always matters, to name rubbish as rubbish; that to do otherwise is to legitimize it.
SALMAN RUSHDIE -
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.
SALMAN RUSHDIE -
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.
SALMAN RUSHDIE -
Only the foolish, blinded by language’s conventions, think of fire as red or gold. Fire is blue at it’s melancholy rim, green in it’s envious heart. It may burn white, or even, in it’s greatest rages, black.
SALMAN RUSHDIE -
I’ve been worrying about God a little bit lately. It seems like he’s been in a bad mood. And I think it has to do with the quality of lovers he’s been getting.
SALMAN RUSHDIE -
The only people who see the whole picture,’ he murmured, ‘are the ones who step out of the frame.
SALMAN RUSHDIE -
We all owe death a life.
SALMAN RUSHDIE -
One of the things a writer is for is to say the unsayable, speak the unspeakable and ask difficult questions.
SALMAN RUSHDIE -
How do you defeat terrorism? Don’t be terrorized.
SALMAN RUSHDIE