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.
SALMAN RUSHDIEIn the cookie of life, friends are the chocolate chips.
More Salman Rushdie Quotes
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Ignorantly is how we all fall in love; for it is a kind of fall. Closing our eyes, we leap from that cliff in hope of a soft landing. Nor is it always soft; but still, without that leap nobody comes to life.
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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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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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Once you put a thought into the world, it can be disagreed with, but it can’t be unthought.
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I write books I’d enjoy reading, I’m the reader standing behind my shoulder.
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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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I admit it: above all things, I fear absurdity.
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Literature is where I go to explore the highest and lowest places in human society and in the human spirit, where I hope to find not absolute truth but the truth of the tale, of the imagination and of the heart.
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Masks beneath masks until suddenly the bare bloodless skull.
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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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We are the storytelling animal.
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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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In the cookie of life, friends are the chocolate chips.
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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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Religion, a mediaeval form of unreason, when combined with modern weaponry becomes a real threat to our freedoms. This religious totalitarianism has caused a deadly mutation in the heart of Islam and we see the tragic consequences in Paris today.
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