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.
SALMAN RUSHDIEWhat one writer can make in the solitude of one room is something no power can easily destroy.
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When a reader falls in love with a book, it leaves its essence inside him, like radioactive fallout in an arable field, and after that there are certain crops that will no longer grow in him, while other, stranger, more fantastic growths may occasionally be produced.
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What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.
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The lessons one learns at school are not always the ones the school thinks it’s teaching.
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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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From the beginning men used God to justify the unjustifiable.
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If somebody’s trying to shut you up, sing louder, and if possible, better.
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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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You can find shame in every house, burning in an ashtray, hanging framed upon a wall, covering a bed. But nobody notices it any more.
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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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Free speech is not just free speech for people you admire. It’s also for people who you think of as reprehensible.
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The only people who see the whole picture,’ he murmured, ‘are the ones who step out of the frame.
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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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What one writer can make in the solitude of one room is something no power can easily destroy.
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A poet’s work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it going to sleep.
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The world, somebody wrote, is the place we prove real by dying in it.
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