It is very, very easy not to be offended by a book. You just have to shut it.
SALMAN RUSHDIEIt matters, it always matters, to name rubbish as rubbish; that to do otherwise is to legitimize it.
More Salman Rushdie Quotes
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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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I write books I’d enjoy reading, I’m the reader standing behind my shoulder.
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In the cookie of life, friends are the chocolate chips.
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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.
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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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Reality is a question of perspective.
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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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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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We all owe death a life.
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Religion, a mediaeval form of unreason, when combined with modern weaponry becomes a real threat to our freedoms. This religious totalitarianism has caused a deadly mutation in the heart of Islam and we see the tragic consequences in Paris today.
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Free speech is not just free speech for people you admire. It’s also for people who you think of as reprehensible.
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My horizon’s have shrunk and I have only endings to write.
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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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Two things form the bedrock of any open society – freedom of expression and rule of law. If you don’t have those things, you don’t have a free country.
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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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