He knew what he knew: that the real world was full of magic, so magical worlds could easily be real.
SALMAN RUSHDIEFree speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself.
More Salman Rushdie Quotes
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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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Something was badly amiss with the spiritual life of the planet, Too many demons inside people claiming to believe in God.
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Reality is a question of perspective.
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From the beginning men used God to justify the unjustifiable.
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I write books I’d enjoy reading, I’m the reader standing behind my shoulder.
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I admit it: above all things, I fear absurdity.
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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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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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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.
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What kind of Christmas present would Jesus ask Santa for?
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The world, somebody wrote, is the place we prove real by dying in it.
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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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One of the things a writer is for is to say the unsayable, speak the unspeakable and ask difficult questions.
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