Stories in families are colossally important. Every family has stories: some funny, some proud, some embarrassing, some shameful. Knowing them is proof of belonging to the family.
SALMAN RUSHDIEWhen 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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The only people who see the whole picture,’ he murmured, ‘are the ones who step out of the frame.
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Science fiction is always a vehicle for ideas. It’s the form which allows either movies or books to be an exploration of how we should live.
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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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It is very, very easy not to be offended by a book. You just have to shut it.
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A poet’s work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it going to sleep.
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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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Language is courage: the ability to conceive a thought, to speak it, and by doing so to make it true.
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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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An attack upon our ability to tell stories is not just censorship – it is a crime against our nature as human beings.
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Reality is a question of perspective.
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In the waking dreams our societies permit, in our myths, our arts, our songs, we celebrate the nonbelongers, the different ones, the outlaws, the freaks.
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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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What’s real and what’s true aren’t necessarily the same.
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Our lives, our stories, flowed into one another’s, were no longer our own, individual, discrete.
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In the cookie of life, friends are the chocolate chips.
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