To understand just one life you have to swallow the world do you wonder, then, that I was a heavy child?
SALMAN RUSHDIE
For every snake, there is a ladder; for every ladder, a snake.
More Salman Rushdie Quotes
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To understand just one life you have to swallow the world do you wonder, then, that I was a heavy child?
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Liberate yourself, because no one else is going to liberate you.
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I admit it: above all things, I fear absurdity.
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If you’re offended, it’s your problem.
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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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We cannot allow religious hooligans to place limiting points on thought.
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The world, somebody wrote, is the place we prove real by dying in it.
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People can do bad things with free speech as well as good. You have to defend the Ku Klux Klan as well as Martin Luther King. It’s like that. If you’re going to defend the principle, then you have to defend people who use the principle badly.
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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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I have always thought that these two ways of talking, one is the fantastic, the fable, the fairy tale, and the other being history, the scholarly study of what happened, I think they’re both amazing ways to understand human nature.
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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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Where there is no belief, there is no blasphemy.
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It seems that the right of freedom of speech that was enshrined in numerous constitutions is now under attack by religious institutions.
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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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For every snake, there is a ladder; for every ladder, a snake.
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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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