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.
SALMAN RUSHDIETo understand just one life you have to swallow the world do you wonder, then, that I was a heavy child?
More Salman Rushdie Quotes
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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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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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What one writer can make in the solitude of one room is something no power can easily destroy.
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What kind of Christmas present would Jesus ask Santa for?
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Until you know who you are you can’t write.
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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 are the storytelling animal.
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For every snake, there is a ladder; for every ladder, a snake.
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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.
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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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Once you put a thought into the world, it can be disagreed with, but it can’t be unthought.
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Too many people spouting too many words, and in the end those words will turn to bullets and stones.
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In the cookie of life, friends are the chocolate chips.
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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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In the waking dreams our societies permit, in our myths, our arts, our songs, we celebrate the nonbelongers, the different ones, the outlaws, the freaks.
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Masks beneath masks until suddenly the bare bloodless skull.
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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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Between the adored and the adorer falls the shadow.
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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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One of the things a writer is for is to say the unsayable, speak the unspeakable and ask difficult questions.
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From the beginning men used God to justify the unjustifiable.
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How do you defeat terrorism? Don’t be terrorized.
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Two things form the bedrock of any open society – freedom of expression and rule of law. If you don’t have those things, you don’t have a free country.
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I stand with Charlie Hebdo, as we all must, to defend the art of satire.
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We all owe death a life.
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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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