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53 Salman Rushdie Quotes & Sayings
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53 Salman Rushdie Quotes & Sayings
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Born: 19 June 1947 |
Novelist
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Essayist
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Faith without doubt is addiction.
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Faith
Doubt
Without
Addiction
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What one writer can make in the solitude of one room is something no power can easily destroy.
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Destroy
Easily
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Power
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What distinguishes a great artist from a weak one is first their sensibility and tenderness; second, their imagination, and third, their industry.
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Artist
Distinguishes
First
Great
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It is very, very easy not to be offended by a book. You just have to shut it.
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Book
Easy
Just
Offended
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Lives
Our
Teach
Us
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I hate admitting that my enemies have a point.
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Admitting
Enemies
Hate
Point
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A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it; or offer your own version in return.
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Book
Ignore
Like
Offer
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Most of what matters in your life takes place in your absence.
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Absence
Life
Matters
Most
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Be sure that you go to the author to get at his meaning, not to find yours.
Salman Rushdie
Author
Find
Get
Go
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Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself.
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Ball
Free
Game
Itself
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I do not need the idea of God to explain the world I live in.
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Explain
God
Idea
Live
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When thought becomes excessively painful, action is the finest remedy.
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Action
Becomes
Excess
Finest
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Sometimes legends make reality, and become more useful than the facts.
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Become
Facts
Legends
Make
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What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.
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Ceases
Exist
Expression
Freedom
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Our lives are not what we deserve; they are, let us agree, in many ways deficient.
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Agree
Deficient
Deserve
Lives
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If I were asked for a one-sentence sound bite on religion, I would say I was against it.
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Against
Asked
Bite
Religion
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One of the extraordinary things about human events is that the unthinkable becomes thinkable.
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About
Becomes
Events
Extraordinary
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In this world without quiet corners, there can be no easy escapes from history, from hullabaloo, from terrible, unquiet fuss.
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Corners
Easy
Escapes
Fuss
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Rock and roll music - the music of freedom frightens people and unleashes all manner of conservative defense mechanisms.
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Conservative
Defense
Freedom
Frighten
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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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Both
Fight
Groups
Images
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Act
Authors
Books
Choose
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Doubt, it seems to me, is the central condition of a human being in the twentieth century.
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Being
Central
Century
Condition
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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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Apartment
Becomes
Fate
First
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There is a widespread difficulty in the Muslim world, which has to do with how the people are taught about examining their own history. A whole range of stuff has been placed off limits.
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About
Been
Difficulty
Examining
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If you actually want to change your world, there is a better way of doing it than blowing yourself up.
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Actually
Better
Blowing
Change
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I don't like books that play to the gallery, but I've become more concerned with telling a story as clearly and engagingly as I can.
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Become
Books
Clearly
Concerned
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I've never seen anywhere in the world as beautiful as Kashmir. It has something to do with the fact that the valley is very small and the mountains are very big, so you have this miniature countryside surrounded by the Himalayas, and it's just spectacular. And it's true, the people are very beautiful too.
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Anywhere
Beautiful
Big
Countryside
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It's so disappointing, to put it mildly, that people know so much about my life. Because it means that they're always trying to look at my books in terms of my life.
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About
Always
Because
Books
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Away
Best
Drops
Else
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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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Feel
Free
Living
Only
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The only way to find out why someone decides to engage in armed combat is to look at their individual personality.
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Armed
Combat
Decide
Engage
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I've never had very high regard for therapists. I owe my health, my mental survival, to my friends and loved ones.
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Friends
Had
Health
High
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Writers shouldn't have lives that are interesting. It gets in the way of your work.
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Gets
Interesting
Lives
Way
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The world is a very abnormal place.
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Abnormal
Place
Very
World
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I've never rejected the world I came from. To be rejected by it is horrible.
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Came
Horrible
Never
Rejected
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It's one thing to say, 'I don't like what you said to me and I find it rude and offensive,' but the moment you threaten violence in return, you've taken it to another level, where you lose whatever credibility you had.
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Another
Credibility
Find
Had
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The Satanic Verses' was denied the ordinary life of a novel. It became something smaller and uglier: an insult.
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Became
Denied
Insult
Life
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You don't that often see writers being sought out when there are matters of great moment to discuss. And I think that's a loss.
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Being
Discuss
Great
Loss
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The suicide bomber's imagination leads him to believe in a brilliant act of heroism, when in fact he is simply blowing himself up pointlessly and taking other people's lives.
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Act
Believe
Blowing
Bomber
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Employee
Just
Movies
Servant
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Someone asked me if I was afraid to write my memoirs. I told him: 'We have to stop drawing up accounts of fear! We live in a society in which people are allowed to tell their story, and that is what I do.'
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Accounts
Afraid
Allowed
Asked
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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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Based
Been
Date
Ideas
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The problem of telling contemporary history is that your message gets outdated.
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Contemporary
Gets
History
Message
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In general, writers shouldn't be killed for what they write, though I can think of exceptions.
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Exceptions
General
Can
Think
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I've always prided myself on my discipline as a writer. I do it like a job. I get up in the morning and go to my desk.
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Always
Desk
Discipline
Get
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If you have children, you worry about the world you're leaving them.
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About
Children
Leaving
Them
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I am not in the business of suppressing books.
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Am
Books
Business
Suppressing
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In the real world, immeasurable hurt is caused by terrorists based in Pakistan who attack countries like India.
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Attack
Based
Caused
Countries
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Speaking as somebody with three sisters and a very largely female Muslim family, there is not a single woman I know in my family or in their friends who would have accepted the wearing of a veil.
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Accepted
Family
Female
Friends
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I think the veil is a way of taking power away from women.
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Away
Power
Taking
Think
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