I didn’t become a writer to write about me.
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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The only people who see the whole picture,’ he murmured, ‘are the ones who step out of the frame.
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The world, somebody wrote, is the place we prove real by dying in it.
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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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The lessons one learns at school are not always the ones the school thinks it’s teaching.
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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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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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Perhaps the story you finish is never the one you begin.
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If somebody’s trying to shut you up, sing louder, and if possible, better.
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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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What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.
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Where there is no belief, there is no blasphemy.
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I have always thought that these two ways of talking, one is the fantastic, the fable, the fairy tale, and the other being history, the scholarly study of what happened, I think they’re both amazing ways to understand human nature.
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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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Once you put a thought into the world, it can be disagreed with, but it can’t be unthought.
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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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