I didn’t become a writer to write about me.
SALMAN RUSHDIEToo many people spouting too many words, and in the end those words will turn to bullets and stones.
More Salman Rushdie Quotes
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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 admit it: above all things, I fear absurdity.
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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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We have come to think of taking offence as a fundamental right. We value very little more highly than our rage, which gives us, in our opinion, the moral high ground. From there we can shoot down at our enemies and inflict heavy fatalities.
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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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Faith without doubt is addiction.
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So India’s problem turns out to be the world’s problem. What happened in India has happened in God’s name. The problem’s name is God.
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You can’t have modern states based on ideas which have been out of date for a thousand years.
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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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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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Where there is no belief, there is no blasphemy.
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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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Perhaps the story you finish is never the one you begin.
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The moment you declare a set of ideas to be immune from criticism, satire, derision, or contempt, freedom of thought becomes impossible.
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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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