How do you defeat terrorism? Don’t be terrorized.
SALMAN RUSHDIEI admit it: above all things, I fear absurdity.
More Salman Rushdie Quotes
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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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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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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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If you take a look at history, you will find that the understanding of what is good and evil has always existed before the individual religions. The religions were only invented by people afterwards, in order to express this idea.
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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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Religion, a mediaeval form of unreason, when combined with modern weaponry becomes a real threat to our freedoms. This religious totalitarianism has caused a deadly mutation in the heart of Islam and we see the tragic consequences in Paris today.
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Language is courage: the ability to conceive a thought, to speak it, and by doing so to make it true.
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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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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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What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.
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I didn’t become a writer to write about me.
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My horizon’s have shrunk and I have only endings to write.
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We cannot allow religious hooligans to place limiting points on thought.
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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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From the beginning men used God to justify the unjustifiable.
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