Where there is no belief, there is no blasphemy.
SALMAN RUSHDIEI admit it: above all things, I fear absurdity.
More Salman Rushdie Quotes
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Our lives, our stories, flowed into one another’s, were no longer our own, individual, discrete.
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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 matters, it always matters, to name rubbish as rubbish; that to do otherwise is to legitimize it.
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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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You can’t have modern states based on ideas which have been out of date for a thousand years.
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What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.
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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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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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I write books I’d enjoy reading, I’m the reader standing behind my shoulder.
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Liberate yourself, because no one else is going to liberate you.
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We were language’s magpies by nature, stealing whatever sounded bright and shiny.
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Masks beneath masks until suddenly the bare bloodless skull.
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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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What one writer can make in the solitude of one room is something no power can easily destroy.
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How do you defeat terrorism? Don’t be terrorized.
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