Masks beneath masks until suddenly the bare bloodless skull.
SALMAN RUSHDIEIn the cookie of life, friends are the chocolate chips.
More Salman Rushdie Quotes
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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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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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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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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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In the waking dreams our societies permit, in our myths, our arts, our songs, we celebrate the nonbelongers, the different ones, the outlaws, the freaks.
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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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People can do bad things with free speech as well as good. You have to defend the Ku Klux Klan as well as Martin Luther King. It’s like that. If you’re going to defend the principle, then you have to defend people who use the principle badly.
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Two things form the bedrock of any open society – freedom of expression and rule of law. If you don’t have those things, you don’t have a free country.
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The world, somebody wrote, is the place we prove real by dying in it.
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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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It matters, it always matters, to name rubbish as rubbish; that to do otherwise is to legitimize it.
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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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We cannot allow religious hooligans to place limiting points on thought.
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If you’re offended, it’s your problem.
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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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