What I do think is evident is that those countries in the world where Islamic extremism has recovered the most power, those are also the countries which are most disliked.
SALMAN RUSHDIEThe moment you declare a set of ideas to be immune from criticism, satire, derision, or contempt, freedom of thought becomes impossible.
More Salman Rushdie Quotes
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My horizon’s have shrunk and I have only endings to write.
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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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Perhaps the story you finish is never the one you begin.
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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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He knew what he knew: that the real world was full of magic, so magical worlds could easily be real.
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Our lives, our stories, flowed into one another’s, were no longer our own, individual, discrete.
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An attack upon our ability to tell stories is not just censorship – it is a crime against our nature as human beings.
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Reality is a question of perspective.
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Respect for religion’ has become a code phrase meaning ‘fear of religion.’ Religions, like all other ideas, deserve criticism, satire, and, yes, our fearless disrespect.
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In the cookie of life, friends are the chocolate chips.
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Ignorantly is how we all fall in love; for it is a kind of fall. Closing our eyes, we leap from that cliff in hope of a soft landing. Nor is it always soft; but still, without that leap nobody comes to life.
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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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I’ve been worrying about God a little bit lately. It seems like he’s been in a bad mood. And I think it has to do with the quality of lovers he’s been getting.
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The only people who see the whole picture,’ he murmured, ‘are the ones who step out of the frame.
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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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