Salman Rushdie

Salman Rushdie

"An attack upon our ability to tell stories is not just censorship - it is a crime against our nature as human beings."
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"An attack upon our ability to tell stories is not just censorship - it is a crime against our nature as human beings."
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"Sometimes I think that when people become famous, there's a public perception that they are not human beings any more. They don't have feelings; they don't get hurt; you can act and say as you like about them."
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"Perhaps because my relationship with my father went through such a long, bumpy time, it's been very important for me to work to try to keep lines of communication open between my sons and myself to try to avoid my father's mistakes. At least if you're making mistakes, make different mistakes."
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"If my child had prejudice in his head, I'd be ashamed. I would see it as my failure as a parent."
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"When people do the cowardly thing, it's not about respect, it's about fear."
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"I do have a lot of time for people in my life, and friendship is a very important subject for me. I think I'm unusual among the writers I know in that respect."
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"When thought becomes excessively painful action is the finest remedy."
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"OK, publishing a book and releasing a movie is all very well, but Tottenham beating Man. U. 3-2... priceless."
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"You are ass and I like class. I like diamonds, you are a glass. You brown mouse, I like black cats. You boy pussy but i like tom cats. Just because you got the dance, don't think you stand a fucking chance."
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"From the beginning men used God to justify the unjustifiable."
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"โ€œFrom the beginning men used God to justify the unjustifiable.โ€"
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"Mourn for the living, the dead have got their camphor gardens."
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"I'd rather die fighting over great poets than over gods."
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"It may be that writers in my position,exiles, or emigrants or expatriates, are haunted by some sense of loss, some urge to reclaim, to look back, even at the risk of being mutilated into pillars of salt. But if we do look back, we must do in the knowledge - which gives rise to profound uncertainties- that our physical alienation from India almost inevitably means that we will not be capable of reclaiming precisely the thing that was lost, that we will, in short, create fictions, not actual cities or villages, but invisible ones, imaginary homelands, Indias of the mind."
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"The enemy for the fanatic is pleasure, which makes it extremely important to continue to indulge in pleasure. Dance madly. That is how you get rid of terrorism."
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"What kind of God is it who's upset by a cartoon in Da"
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"A question I have often asked is, โ€˜What would an inoffensive political cartoon look like?โ€™ What would a respectful cartoon look like? The form requires disrespect and so if we are going to have in the world things like cartoons and satire, we just have to accept it as part of the price of fre"
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"Many of us persons of the tinted persuasion care about human rights and artistic freedom too."
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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."
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"The moment you say that any idea system is sacred, whether itโ€™s a religious belief system or a secular ideology, the moment you declare a set of ideas to be immune from criticism, satire, derision, or contempt, freedom of thought becomes imposs"
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