We have come to think of taking offence as a fundamental right. We value very little more highly than our rage, which gives us, in our opinion, the moral high ground. From there we can shoot down at our enemies and inflict heavy fatalities.
SALMAN RUSHDIEMy horizon’s have shrunk and I have only endings to write.
More Salman Rushdie Quotes
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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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I didn’t become a writer to write about me.
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Our lives, our stories, flowed into one another’s, were no longer our own, individual, discrete.
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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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I admit it: above all things, I fear absurdity.
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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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Perhaps the story you finish is never the one you begin.
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Language is courage: the ability to conceive a thought, to speak it, and by doing so to make it true.
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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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The lessons one learns at school are not always the ones the school thinks it’s teaching.
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For every snake, there is a ladder; for every ladder, a snake.
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Two things form the bedrock of any open society – freedom of expression and rule of law. If you don’t have those things, you don’t have a free country.
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Until you know who you are you can’t write.
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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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