To understand just one life you have to swallow the world do you wonder, then, that I was a heavy child?
SALMAN RUSHDIELanguage is courage: the ability to conceive a thought, to speak it, and by doing so to make it true.
More Salman Rushdie Quotes
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He knew what he knew: that the real world was full of magic, so magical worlds could easily be real.
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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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It matters, it always matters, to name rubbish as rubbish; that to do otherwise is to legitimize it.
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If you’re offended, it’s your problem.
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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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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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What kind of Christmas present would Jesus ask Santa for?
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I write books I’d enjoy reading, I’m the reader standing behind my shoulder.
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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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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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The moment you declare a set of ideas to be immune from criticism, satire, derision, or contempt, freedom of thought becomes impossible.
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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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Between the adored and the adorer falls the shadow.
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If somebody’s trying to shut you up, sing louder, and if possible, better.
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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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