If you’re offended, it’s your problem.
SALMAN RUSHDIEFor every snake, there is a ladder; for every ladder, a snake.
More Salman Rushdie Quotes
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We all owe death a life.
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How do you defeat terrorism? Don’t be terrorized.
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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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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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For every snake, there is a ladder; for every ladder, a snake.
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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.
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Until you know who you are you can’t write.
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Reality is a question of perspective.
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Religion is responsible for a lot of the problems in the history of the world and it’s not something that I practice or recommend, but to each his own.
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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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The world, somebody wrote, is the place we prove real by dying in it.
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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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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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Faith without doubt is addiction.
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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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If you take a look at history, you will find that the understanding of what is good and evil has always existed before the individual religions. The religions were only invented by people afterwards, in order to express this idea.
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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.
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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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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 were language’s magpies by nature, stealing whatever sounded bright and shiny.
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Perhaps the story you finish is never the one you begin.
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My horizon’s have shrunk and I have only endings to write.
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Liberate yourself, because no one else is going to liberate you.
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If somebody’s trying to shut you up, sing louder, and if possible, better.
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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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Where there is no belief, there is no blasphemy.
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