An attack upon our ability to tell stories is not just censorship – it is a crime against our nature as human beings.
SALMAN RUSHDIEThe lessons one learns at school are not always the ones the school thinks it’s teaching.
More Salman Rushdie Quotes
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If you’re offended, it’s your problem.
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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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Until you know who you are you can’t write.
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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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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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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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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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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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Where there is no belief, there is no blasphemy.
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How do you defeat terrorism? Don’t be terrorized.
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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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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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What one writer can make in the solitude of one room is something no power can easily destroy.
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We all owe death a life.
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What kind of Christmas present would Jesus ask Santa for?
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What’s real and what’s true aren’t necessarily the same.
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In the cookie of life, friends are the chocolate chips.
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Of course, there is nothing intrinsic linking any religion with any act of violence. The crusades don’t prove that Christianity was violent. The Inquisition doesn’t prove that Christianity tortures people. But that Christianity did torture people.
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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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You can’t have modern states based on ideas which have been out of date for a thousand years.
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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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I write books I’d enjoy reading, I’m the reader standing behind my shoulder.
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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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You can find shame in every house, burning in an ashtray, hanging framed upon a wall, covering a bed. But nobody notices it any more.
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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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I stand with Charlie Hebdo, as we all must, to defend the art of satire.
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