Once you put a thought into the world, it can be disagreed with, but it can’t be unthought.
SALMAN RUSHDIEI 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.
More Salman Rushdie Quotes
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I didn’t become a writer to write about me.
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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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Between the adored and the adorer falls the shadow.
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Our lives, our stories, flowed into one another’s, were no longer our own, individual, discrete.
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Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself.
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Those who do not have power over the story that dominates their lives, power to retell it, to rethink it, deconstruct it, joke about it, and change it as times change, truly are powerless, because they cannot think new thoughts.
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If you’re offended, it’s your problem.
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One of the strange things about violent and authoritarian regimes is they don’t like the glare of negative publicity.
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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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We are the storytelling animal.
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I admit it: above all things, I fear absurdity.
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Until you know who you are you can’t write.
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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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People can do bad things with free speech as well as good. You have to defend the Ku Klux Klan as well as Martin Luther King. It’s like that. If you’re going to defend the principle, then you have to defend people who use the principle badly.
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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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