Liberate yourself, because no one else is going to liberate you.
SALMAN RUSHDIEI admit it: above all things, I fear absurdity.
More Salman Rushdie Quotes
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Religion is responsible for a lot of the problems in the history of the world and it’s not something that I practice or recommend, but to each his own.
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I stand with Charlie Hebdo, as we all must, to defend the art of satire.
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Science fiction is always a vehicle for ideas. It’s the form which allows either movies or books to be an exploration of how we should live.
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Between the adored and the adorer falls the shadow.
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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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The only people who see the whole picture,’ he murmured, ‘are the ones who step out of the frame.
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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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The lessons one learns at school are not always the ones the school thinks it’s teaching.
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In the cookie of life, friends are the chocolate chips.
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I write books I’d enjoy reading, I’m the reader standing behind my shoulder.
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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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Only 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.
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Our lives, our stories, flowed into one another’s, were no longer our own, individual, discrete.
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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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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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