Between the adored and the adorer falls the shadow.
SALMAN RUSHDIEEvery time you finish a book, you have a terrible feeling that there’s just never going to be another one. But fortunately, so far, the next one has always shown up.
More Salman Rushdie Quotes
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Where there is no belief, there is no blasphemy.
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I write books I’d enjoy reading, I’m the reader standing behind my shoulder.
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Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself.
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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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We are the storytelling animal.
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Our lives, our stories, flowed into one another’s, were no longer our own, individual, discrete.
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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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The world, somebody wrote, is the place we prove real by dying in it.
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So India’s problem turns out to be the world’s problem. What happened in India has happened in God’s name. The problem’s name is God.
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In the cookie of life, friends are the chocolate chips.
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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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Religion is responsible for a lot of the problems in the history of the world and it’s not something that I practice or recommend, but to each his own.
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What I do think is evident is that those countries in the world where Islamic extremism has recovered the most power, those are also the countries which are most disliked.
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One of the strange things about violent and authoritarian regimes is they don’t like the glare of negative publicity.
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One of the things a writer is for is to say the unsayable, speak the unspeakable and ask difficult questions.
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