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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If you’re offended, it’s your problem.
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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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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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Where there is no belief, there is no blasphemy.
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Our lives, our stories, flowed into one another’s, were no longer our own, individual, discrete.
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We are the storytelling animal.
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We have come to think of taking offence as a fundamental right. We value very little more highly than our rage, which gives us, in our opinion, the moral high ground. From there we can shoot down at our enemies and inflict heavy fatalities.
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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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Too many people spouting too many words, and in the end those words will turn to bullets and stones.
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Something was badly amiss with the spiritual life of the planet, Too many demons inside people claiming to believe in God.
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I admit it: above all things, I fear absurdity.
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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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We all owe death a life.
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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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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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