Quotes by Salman Rushdie

Salman Rushdie

Salman Rushdie

Engels writer

Lived from: 1947 -

Category: Writers (Contemporary) Country: FlagUnited Kingdom

Born: 19 june 1947

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  • Not even the visionary or mystical experience ever lasts very long. It is for art to capture that experience, to offer it to, in the case of literature, its readers; to be, for a secular, materialist culture, some sort of replacement for what the love of god offers in the world of faith.
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  • One of the extraordinary things about human events is that the unthinkable becomes thinkable.
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  • One of the problems with defending free speech is you often have to defend people that you find to be outrageous and unpleasant and disgusting.
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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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  • Our lives teach us who we are.
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  • Perhaps the story you finish is never the one you begin.
    Midnight's Children (2010) 596
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  • Reality is a question of perspective; the further you get from the past, the more concrete and plausible it seems -but as you approach the present, it inevitably seems incredible.
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  • Religion is responsible for a lot of the problems in the history of the world.
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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.
    (2015)
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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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  • Sometimes legends make reality, and become more useful than the facts.
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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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  • Such is the miraculous nature of the future of exiles: what is first uttered in the impotence of an overheated apartment becomes the fate of nations.
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  • The acceptance that all that is solid has melted into the air, that reality and morality are not givens but imperfect human constructs, is the point from which fiction begins.
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  • The glamour of being forbidden must not be underestimated.
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  • The idea of the sacred is quite simply one of the most conservative notions in any culture, because it seeks to turn other ideas - uncertainty, progress, change - into crimes.
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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.
    (2005)
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  • The novel does not seek to establish a privileged language but it insists upon the freedom to portray and analyze the struggle between the different contestants for such privileges.
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  • The only privilege literature deserves - and this privilege it requires in order to exist - is the privilege of being in the arena of discourse, the place where the struggle of our languages can be acted out.
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  • The only way of living in a free society is to feel that you have the right to say and do stuff.
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