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.
SALMAN RUSHDIEI’ve been worrying about God a little bit lately. It seems like he’s been in a bad mood. And I think it has to do with the quality of lovers he’s been getting.
More Salman Rushdie Quotes
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In the cookie of life, friends are the chocolate chips.
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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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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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If you’re offended, it’s your problem.
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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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Perhaps the story you finish is never the one you begin.
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Faith without doubt is addiction.
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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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I have never really thought of myself as a writer about religion. And I think one of the things that happened to me as a result of all that is that I think it did for some people, many people, obscure the kind of writer that I actually am.
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I’ve been worrying about God a little bit lately. It seems like he’s been in a bad mood. And I think it has to do with the quality of lovers he’s been getting.
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Stories in families are colossally important. Every family has stories: some funny, some proud, some embarrassing, some shameful. Knowing them is proof of belonging to the family.
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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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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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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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We all owe death a life.
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