What kind of Christmas present would Jesus ask Santa for?
SALMAN RUSHDIEWe cannot allow religious hooligans to place limiting points on thought.
More Salman Rushdie Quotes
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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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Perhaps the story you finish is never the one you begin.
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What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.
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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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Liberate yourself, because no one else is going to liberate you.
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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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How do you defeat terrorism? Don’t be terrorized.
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Our lives, our stories, flowed into one another’s, were no longer our own, individual, discrete.
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Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself.
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I write books I’d enjoy reading, I’m the reader standing behind my shoulder.
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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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Among the great struggles of man-good/evil, reason/unreason, etc.-there is also this mighty conflict between the fantasy of Home and the fantasy of Away, the dream of roots and the mirage of the journey.
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The lessons one learns at school are not always the ones the school thinks it’s teaching.
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Self-censorship is a lie to yourself; if you are going to be trying to seriously create art, to create literary art, and you decide to hold back, to censor yourself, then you are a fool to yourself and it would be better that you kept your mouth shut and did not speak.
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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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