No, I don’t think it’s fair to label Islam ‘violent.’ But I will say that to my knowledge, no writer has ever gone into hiding for criticizing the Amish.
SALMAN RUSHDIEAn attack upon our ability to tell stories is not just censorship – it is a crime against our nature as human beings.
More Salman Rushdie Quotes
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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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If somebody’s trying to shut you up, sing louder, and if possible, better.
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Once you put a thought into the world, it can be disagreed with, but it can’t be unthought.
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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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What kind of Christmas present would Jesus ask Santa for?
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I have never really thought of myself as a writer about religion. And I think one of the things that happened to me as a result of all that is that I think it did for some people, many people, obscure the kind of writer that I actually am.
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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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An attack upon our ability to tell stories is not just censorship – it is a crime against our nature as human beings.
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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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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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The only people who see the whole picture,’ he murmured, ‘are the ones who step out of the frame.
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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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If you’re offended, it’s your problem.
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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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My horizon’s have shrunk and I have only endings to write.
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