Literature is where I go to explore the highest and lowest places in human society and in the human spirit, where I hope to find not absolute truth but the truth of the tale, of the imagination and of the heart.
SALMAN RUSHDIEHow do you defeat terrorism? Don’t be terrorized.
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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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Masks beneath masks until suddenly the bare bloodless skull.
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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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Perhaps the story you finish is never the one you begin.
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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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It is very, very easy not to be offended by a book. You just have to shut it.
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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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What kind of Christmas present would Jesus ask Santa for?
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Literature is the one place in any society where, within the secrecy of our own heads, we can hear voices talking about everything in every possible way.
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What I do think is evident is that those countries in the world where Islamic extremism has recovered the most power, those are also the countries which are most disliked.
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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.
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I write books I’d enjoy reading, I’m the reader standing behind my shoulder.
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Liberate yourself, because no one else is going to liberate you.
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Where there is no belief, there is no blasphemy.
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He knew what he knew: that the real world was full of magic, so magical worlds could easily be real.
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