How do you defeat terrorism? Don’t be terrorized.
SALMAN RUSHDIEMy horizon’s have shrunk and I have only endings to write.
More Salman Rushdie Quotes
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If you’re offended, it’s your problem.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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I didn’t become a writer to write about me.
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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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Too many people spouting too many words, and in the end those words will turn to bullets and stones.
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My horizon’s have shrunk and I have only endings to write.
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A poet’s work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it going to sleep.
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Where there is no belief, there is no blasphemy.
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I write books I’d enjoy reading, I’m the reader standing behind my shoulder.
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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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