The only people who see the whole picture,’ he murmured, ‘are the ones who step out of the frame.
SALMAN RUSHDIEHe knew what he knew: that the real world was full of magic, so magical worlds could easily be real.
More Salman Rushdie Quotes
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Perhaps the story you finish is never the one you begin.
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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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Between the adored and the adorer falls the shadow.
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Liberate yourself, because no one else is going to liberate you.
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My horizon’s have shrunk and I have only endings to write.
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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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From the beginning men used God to justify the unjustifiable.
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Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself.
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Among the great struggles of man-good/evil, reason/unreason, etc.-there is also this mighty conflict between the fantasy of Home and the fantasy of Away, the dream of roots and the mirage of the journey.
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In the cookie of life, friends are the chocolate chips.
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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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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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If you actually want to change your world, there is a better way of doing it than blowing yourself up.
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We cannot allow religious hooligans to place limiting points on thought.
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Those who do not have power over the story that dominates their lives, power to retell it, to rethink it, deconstruct it, joke about it, and change it as times change, truly are powerless, because they cannot think new thoughts.
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