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.
SALMAN RUSHDIEBetween the adored and the adorer falls the shadow.
More Salman Rushdie Quotes
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Literature is the one place in any society where, within the secrecy of our own heads, we can hear voices talking about everything in every possible way.
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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 were language’s magpies by nature, stealing whatever sounded bright and shiny.
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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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I admit it: above all things, I fear absurdity.
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You can’t have modern states based on ideas which have been out of date for a thousand years.
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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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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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From the beginning men used God to justify the unjustifiable.
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My horizon’s have shrunk and I have only endings to write.
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Reality is a question of perspective.
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Where there is no belief, there is no blasphemy.
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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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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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