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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  • The publishing of a book is a worldwide event. The attempt to suppress a book is a worldwide event.
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  • There is no such thing as perfect security, only varying levels of insecurity.
    Telegraph Hay Festival 2012
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  • This paranoid Islam, which blames outsider, 'infidels', for all the ills of Muslim societies, and whose proposed remedy is the closing of those societies to the rival project of modernity, is presently the fastest growing version of Islam in the world.
    NY Times 2-11-2001 Yes, This Is About Islam
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  • Throughout human history, the apostles of purity, those who have claimed to possess a total explanation, have wrought havoc among mere mixed-up human beings.
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  • Too many people spouting too many words, and in the end those words will turn to bullets and stones.
    The Ground Beneath Her Feet (2000) 38
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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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  • Until you know who you are you can’t write.
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  • Vertigo is the conflict between the fear of falling and the desire to fall.
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  • We are the storytelling animal.
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  • We must conclude that it is not only a particular political ideology that has failed, but the idea that men and women could ever define themselves in terms that exclude their spiritual needs.
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  • What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.
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  • What's real and what's true aren't necessarily the same.
    Midnight's Children
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  • When thought becomes excessively painful, action is the finest remedy.
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  • Where there is no belief, there is no blasphemy.
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  • Whores and writers, Mahound. We are the people you can't forgive.
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  • Writers and politicians are natural rivals. Both groups try to make the world in their own images; they fight for the same territory.
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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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  • You can't judge an internal injury by the size of the hole.
    De duivelsverzen (1988)
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  • Your blasphemy, Salman, can't be forgiven. To set your words against the Words of God.
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