Once you put a thought into the world, it can be disagreed with, but it can’t be unthought.
SALMAN RUSHDIEFaith without doubt is addiction.
More Salman Rushdie Quotes
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But there’s one thing we must all be clear about: terrorism is not the pursuit of legitimate goals by some sort of illegitimate means. Whatever the murderers may be trying to achieve, creating a better world certainly isn’t one of their goals. Instead they are out to murder innocent people.
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He knew what he knew: that the real world was full of magic, so magical worlds could easily be real.
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Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself.
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Masks beneath masks until suddenly the bare bloodless skull.
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We all owe death a life.
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What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.
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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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Science fiction is always a vehicle for ideas. It’s the form which allows either movies or books to be an exploration of how we should live.
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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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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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I think if we wish to live in any kind of a moral universe, we must hold the perpetrators of violence responsible for the violence they perpetrate. It’s very simple. The criminal is responsible for the crime.
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Our lives, our stories, flowed into one another’s, were no longer our own, individual, discrete.
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We were language’s magpies by nature, stealing whatever sounded bright and shiny.
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Until you know who you are you can’t write.
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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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