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.
SALMAN RUSHDIEIf you actually want to change your world, there is a better way of doing it than blowing yourself up.
More Salman Rushdie Quotes
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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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I admit it: above all things, I fear absurdity.
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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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Masks beneath masks until suddenly the bare bloodless skull.
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To understand just one life you have to swallow the world do you wonder, then, that I was a heavy child?
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Our lives, our stories, flowed into one another’s, were no longer our own, individual, discrete.
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My horizon’s have shrunk and I have only endings to write.
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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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Faith without doubt is addiction.
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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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What kind of Christmas present would Jesus ask Santa for?
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We cannot allow religious hooligans to place limiting points on thought.
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From the beginning men used God to justify the unjustifiable.
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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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The world, somebody wrote, is the place we prove real by dying in it.
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