I stand with Charlie Hebdo, as we all must, to defend the art of satire.
SALMAN RUSHDIEHow do you defeat terrorism? Don’t be terrorized.
More Salman Rushdie Quotes
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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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I think if we wish to live in any kind of a moral universe, we must hold the perpetrators of violence responsible for the violence they perpetrate. It’s very simple. The criminal is responsible for the crime.
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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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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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We were language’s magpies by nature, stealing whatever sounded bright and shiny.
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It seems that the right of freedom of speech that was enshrined in numerous constitutions is now under attack by religious institutions.
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I admit it: above all things, I fear absurdity.
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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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We are the storytelling animal.
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Ignorantly is how we all fall in love; for it is a kind of fall. Closing our eyes, we leap from that cliff in hope of a soft landing. Nor is it always soft; but still, without that leap nobody comes to life.
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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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Liberate yourself, because no one else is going to liberate you.
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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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I didn’t become a writer to write about me.
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Even when things are at their worst, there’s a little voice in your head saying, ‘Good story!’
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