I didn’t become a writer to write about me.
SALMAN RUSHDIE
My horizon’s have shrunk and I have only endings to write.
More Salman Rushdie Quotes
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I didn’t become a writer to write about me.
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My horizon’s have shrunk and I have only endings to write.
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Of course, there is nothing intrinsic linking any religion with any act of violence. The crusades don’t prove that Christianity was violent. The Inquisition doesn’t prove that Christianity tortures people. But that Christianity did torture people.
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I think if we wish to live in any kind of a moral universe, we must hold the perpetrators of violence responsible for the violence they perpetrate. It’s very simple. The criminal is responsible for the crime.
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Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself.
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Perhaps the story you finish is never the one you begin.
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Our lives, our stories, flowed into one another’s, were no longer our own, individual, discrete.
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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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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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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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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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Reality is a question of perspective.
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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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What one writer can make in the solitude of one room is something no power can easily destroy.
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Between the adored and the adorer falls the shadow.
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