I don’t dictate to anyone what to believe and what not to. And I don’t want that to be dictated to me either.
SALMAN RUSHDIEOnly 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.
More Salman Rushdie Quotes
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If you’re offended, it’s your problem.
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We are the storytelling animal.
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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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He knew what he knew: that the real world was full of magic, so magical worlds could easily be real.
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I write books I’d enjoy reading, I’m the reader standing behind my shoulder.
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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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Too many people spouting too many words, and in the end those words will turn to bullets and stones.
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The moment you declare a set of ideas to be immune from criticism, satire, derision, or contempt, freedom of thought becomes impossible.
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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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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.
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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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Masks beneath masks until suddenly the bare bloodless skull.
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We cannot allow religious hooligans to place limiting points on thought.
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The world, somebody wrote, is the place we prove real by dying in it.
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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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