Reality is a question of perspective.
SALMAN RUSHDIEOnce you put a thought into the world, it can be disagreed with, but it can’t be unthought.
More Salman Rushdie Quotes
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One of the strange things about violent and authoritarian regimes is they don’t like the glare of negative publicity.
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For every snake, there is a ladder; for every ladder, a snake.
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If somebody’s trying to shut you up, sing louder, and if possible, better.
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Stories in families are colossally important. Every family has stories: some funny, some proud, some embarrassing, some shameful. Knowing them is proof of belonging to the family.
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Something was badly amiss with the spiritual life of the planet, Too many demons inside people claiming to believe in God.
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He knew what he knew: that the real world was full of magic, so magical worlds could easily be real.
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We were language’s magpies by nature, stealing whatever sounded bright and shiny.
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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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You can’t have modern states based on ideas which have been out of date for a thousand years.
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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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Where there is no belief, there is no blasphemy.
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What kind of Christmas present would Jesus ask Santa for?
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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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Until you know who you are you can’t write.
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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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Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself.
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Our lives, our stories, flowed into one another’s, were no longer our own, individual, discrete.
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My horizon’s have shrunk and I have only endings to write.
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Every time you finish a book, you have a terrible feeling that there’s just never going to be another one. But fortunately, so far, the next one has always shown up.
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Faith without doubt is addiction.
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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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It is very, very easy not to be offended by a book. You just have to shut it.
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I stand with Charlie Hebdo, as we all must, to defend the art of satire.
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From the beginning men used God to justify the unjustifiable.
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One of the things a writer is for is to say the unsayable, speak the unspeakable and ask difficult questions.
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I write books I’d enjoy reading, I’m the reader standing behind my shoulder.
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