Reality is a question of perspective.
SALMAN RUSHDIEMy horizon’s have shrunk and I have only endings to write.
More Salman Rushdie Quotes
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What’s real and what’s true aren’t necessarily the same.
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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.
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Literature is where I go to explore the highest and lowest places in human society and in the human spirit, where I hope to find not absolute truth but the truth of the tale, of the imagination and of the heart.
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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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It seems that the right of freedom of speech that was enshrined in numerous constitutions is now under attack by religious institutions.
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To understand just one life you have to swallow the world do you wonder, then, that I was a heavy child?
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You can’t have modern states based on ideas which have been out of date for a thousand years.
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My horizon’s have shrunk and I have only endings to write.
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How do you defeat terrorism? Don’t be terrorized.
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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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What one writer can make in the solitude of one room is something no power can easily destroy.
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So India’s problem turns out to be the world’s problem. What happened in India has happened in God’s name. The problem’s name is God.
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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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I stand with Charlie Hebdo, as we all must, to defend the art of satire.
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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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