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Salman Rushdie

Salman Rushdie

Engels writer

Lived from: 1947 -

Category: Writers (Contemporary) Country: FlagUnited Kingdom

Born: 19 june 1947

  • The liveliness of literature lies in its exceptionality, in being the individual, idiosyncratic vision of one human being, in which, to our delight and great surprise, we may find our own vision reflected.
  • 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.
  • A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it; or offer your own version in return.
  • I used to say: ''there is a God-shaped hole in me.'' For a long time I stressed the absence, the hole. Now I find it is the shape which has become more important.
  • No, I don't think it's fair to label Islam 'violent.' But I will say that to my knowledge, no writer has ever gone into hiding for criticizing the Amish.
  • 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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  • Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself.
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  • It seems that the right of freedom of speech that was enshrined in numerous constitutions is now under attack by religious institutions.
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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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