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Salman Rushdie
Salman Rushdie
Indian Novelist
Born: Jun 19, 1947
Life Me People Think World You
Related authors: Charles Dickens Ernest Hemingway Gustave Flaubert James Baldwin John Updike Leo Rosten Paulo Coelho Walter Scott
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. Salman Rushdie
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What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist. Salman Rushdie
Freedom Freedom Of Expression Without Exist Ceases Offend Expression
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. Salman Rushdie
You People Problems Free Free Speech One Of The Problems Find Unpleasant Outrageous Often Disgusting Defend Speech Defending
If you're offended, it's your problem. Salman Rushdie
You Problem Offended Your
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. Salman Rushdie
Me You Rude Lose Whatever Say One Thing Find Threaten Had Taken Like Return Another Said Offensive Where Moment Credibility Thing Level Violence
There is no such thing as perfect security, only varying levels of insecurity. Salman Rushdie
Insecurity Security Only Perfect Thing Levels
Sometimes legends make reality, and become more useful than the facts. Salman Rushdie
Reality Sometimes Become More Facts Make Than Legends Useful
This strange business of what it is to be a writer is this increasingly insane world in which we live, in which surrealism, it seems, is the new realism. Salman Rushdie
Business Strange World Live Increasingly Insane Seems Writer New Surrealism Which Realism
Books choose their authors; the act of creation is not entirely a rational and conscious one. Salman Rushdie
Creation Books Entirely Rational Authors Act Choose Conscious
In an ideal world, you could reunite the Pakistan-occupied part of Kashmir with the Indian-occupied part and restore the old borders. You could have both India and Pakistan agreeing to guarantee those borders, demilitarise the area, and to invest in it economically. In a sane world that would happen, but we don't live in a sane world. Salman Rushdie
You World Old Live Those Would India Borders Restore Both Area Could Invest Part Ideal Ideal World Economically Happen Sane Kashmir Agreeing Pakistan Guarantee
The world is full of things that upset people. But most of us deal with it and move on and don't try and burn the planet down. Salman Rushdie
People World Try Move On Down Most Deal Move Upset Burn Us Planet Full Things
An attack upon our ability to tell stories is not just censorship - it is a crime against our nature as human beings. Salman Rushdie
Nature Censorship Crime Our Tell Ability Attack Human Just Human Beings Stories Against Beings
The question I'm always asking myself is: are we masters or victims? Do we make history, or does history make us? Do we shape the world, or are we just shaped by it? The question of do we have agency in our lives or whether we are just passive victims of events is, I think, a great question, and one that I have always tried to ask. Salman Rushdie
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The mistake of the West was to put the Sauds on the throne of Saudi Arabia and give them control of the world's oil fortune, which they then used to propagate Wahhabi Islam. Salman Rushdie
Mistake World Islam Control Arabia Give Throne Put West Oil Which Them Then Used Fortune Saudi Saudi Arabia
I accept there are people out there who don't like me. I don't like them. Salman Rushdie
Me People Out Like Accept Them Who
When people do the cowardly thing, it's not about respect, it's about fear. Salman Rushdie
Respect People Fear Cowardly About Thing
Censorship is the thing that stops you doing what you want to do, and what writers want to talk about is what they do, not what stops them doing it. Salman Rushdie
You Censorship About Writers Talk Doing Stops Want Them Thing
If bigots behave like bigots, it's not a huge surprise. Salman Rushdie
Like Surprise Huge Behave Bigots
The response of anybody interested in liberty is that we all have a say and the ability to have an argument is exactly what liberty is, even though it may never be resolved. In any authoritarian society the possessor of power dictates, and if you try and step outside he will come after you. Salman Rushdie
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There was a series called 'Game of Thrones' which was very popular here in the United States, a post-Tolkien kind of thing. It was garbage, yet very addictive garbage - because there's lots of violence, all the women take their clothes off all the time, and it's kind of fun. Salman Rushdie
Time Game Women Clothes Garbage Addictive States Kind Take Because Off Lots Very Which Game Of Thrones Fun Popular Series United United States Thing Here Violence
We all dream things into being; you imagine yourself having a child, and then you have a child. An inventor will think of something in his mind and then make it actual. So things are often passing from the imagined realm into the real world. Salman Rushdie
You Yourself World Mind Will Think Dream Something Having Inventor Make Real Passing His Child Often Being The Real World Real World Then Realm Actual Things Imagine Imagined
If I were asked for a one-sentence sound bite on religion, I would say I was against it. Salman Rushdie
Religion Say Bite Would Sound Sound Bite Were Against Asked
I am certainly not a good Muslim. But I am able now to say that I am Muslim; in fact it is a source of happiness to say that I am now inside, and a part of the community whose values have always been closest to my heart. Salman Rushdie
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I hate admitting that my enemies have a point. Salman Rushdie
Hate Enemies Admitting Point
When you are writing a book, it feels as if you are simply concentrating on the world of the book and that whatever is happening in your personal life is outside the room, as it were. But maybe that's just the way you have to talk to yourself to make it possible. Salman Rushdie
Life You Yourself Book Writing World Whatever Personal Life Way Possible Outside Simply Feels Concentrating Talk Make Were Personal Maybe Just Happening Room Your
Originality is dangerous. Salman Rushdie
Dangerous Originality
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