What kind of Christmas present would Jesus ask Santa for?
SALMAN RUSHDIEWe all owe death a life.
More Salman Rushdie Quotes
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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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Masks beneath masks until suddenly the bare bloodless skull.
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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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We were language’s magpies by nature, stealing whatever sounded bright and shiny.
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Where there is no belief, there is no blasphemy.
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If somebody’s trying to shut you up, sing louder, and if possible, better.
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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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I stand with Charlie Hebdo, as we all must, to defend the art of satire.
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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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What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.
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If you actually want to change your world, there is a better way of doing it than blowing yourself up.
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I didn’t become a writer to write about me.
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Even when things are at their worst, there’s a little voice in your head saying, ‘Good story!’
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