Our lives, our stories, flowed into one another’s, were no longer our own, individual, discrete.
SALMAN RUSHDIEWhat one writer can make in the solitude of one room is something no power can easily destroy.
More Salman Rushdie Quotes
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Every time you finish a book, you have a terrible feeling that there’s just never going to be another one. But fortunately, so far, the next one has always shown up.
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I stand with Charlie Hebdo, as we all must, to defend the art of satire.
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If you actually want to change your world, there is a better way of doing it than blowing yourself up.
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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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What’s real and what’s true aren’t necessarily the same.
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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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I didn’t become a writer to write about me.
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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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We are the storytelling animal.
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Liberate yourself, because no one else is going to liberate you.
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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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I admit it: above all things, I fear absurdity.
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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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You can’t have modern states based on ideas which have been out of date for a thousand years.
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I don’t dictate to anyone what to believe and what not to. And I don’t want that to be dictated to me either.
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