The only people who see the whole picture,’ he murmured, ‘are the ones who step out of the frame.
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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Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself.
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From the beginning men used God to justify the unjustifiable.
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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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If you take a look at history, you will find that the understanding of what is good and evil has always existed before the individual religions. The religions were only invented by people afterwards, in order to express this idea.
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What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.
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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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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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My horizon’s have shrunk and I have only endings to write.
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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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Every 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.
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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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Liberate yourself, because no one else is going to liberate you.
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Science fiction is always a vehicle for ideas. It’s the form which allows either movies or books to be an exploration of how we should live.
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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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Where there is no belief, there is no blasphemy.
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If you’re offended, it’s your problem.
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We all owe death a life.
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What’s real and what’s true aren’t necessarily the same.
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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 were language’s magpies by nature, stealing whatever sounded bright and shiny.
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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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To understand just one life you have to swallow the world do you wonder, then, that I was a heavy child?
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Masks beneath masks until suddenly the bare bloodless skull.
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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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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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Only the foolish, blinded by language’s conventions, think of fire as red or gold. Fire is blue at it’s melancholy rim, green in it’s envious heart. It may burn white, or even, in it’s greatest rages, black.
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