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Thomas Pynchon looks exactly like Thomas Pynchon should look. He is tall, he wears lumberjack shirts and blue jeans. He has Albert Einstein white hair and Bugs Bunny front teeth (Salman Rushdie Quotes)
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 Quotes)
War used to be something you could stand on the nearby hill and watch. Now we have total war; everybody’s in it. We have total economics as well. Everything affects everybody. The Malaysian currency shakes, and people around the world are seriously affected (Salman Rushdie Quotes)
What I worry about and don’t like is the way in which the ideology of multiculturalism has declined into cultural relativism. I think that’s very dangerous. When the Archbishop of Canterbury, for God’s sake, says that you can’t have one law for everybody... that’s stupid (Salman Rushdie Quotes)
When ‘Midnight’s Children’ came out, people in the West tended to respond to the fantasy elements in the novel, to praise it in those terms. In India, people read it like a history book (Salman Rushdie Quotes)
Exile is a dream of a glorious return. Exile is a vision of revolution: Elba, not St Helena. It is an endless paradox: looking forward by always looking back. The exile is a ball hurled high into the air (Salman Rushdie Quotes)
In India, as elsewhere in our darkening world, religion is the poison in the blood. Where religion intervenes, mere innocence is no excuse. Yet we go on skating around this issue, speaking of religion in the fashionable language of ‘respect.’ What is there to respect in any of this, or in any of the crimes now being committed almost daily around the world in religion’s dreaded name? (Salman Rushdie Quotes)
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 (Salman Rushdie Quotes)
Among the great struggles of man-good/evil, reason/unreason, etc.-there is also this mighty conflict between the fantasy of Home and the fantasy of Away, the dream of roots and the mirage of the journey (Salman Rushdie Quotes)
As I look back, I feel a touch of pride at my younger self’s dedication to literature, which gave him the strength of mind to resist the blandishments of the enemies of promise. The sirens of ad-land sang sweetly and seductively, but I thought of Odysseus lashing himself to the mast of his ship, and somehow stayed on course (Salman Rushdie Quotes)
Originality is dangerous. It challenges, questions, overturns assumptions, unsettles moral codes (Salman Rushdie Quotes)
I’ve been worrying about God a little bit lately... It seems like he’s been in a bad mood. And I think it has to do with the quality of lovers he’s been getting (Salman Rushdie Quotes)
Peace, perfect peace, in this dark world of sin? The Blood of Jesus whispers peace within (Salman Rushdie Quotes)
To respect Louis Farrakhan, we must understand, is simply to agree with him... If dissent is now also to be thought of as a form of ‘dissing,’ then we have indeed succumbed to the thought police (Salman Rushdie Quotes)
Games sometimes require lateral thinking. They sometimes require quite skilled hand-eye coordination and so on. But they’re not in any sense intelligent in the way that you want your children to develop intelligence to make the mind not just supple, but actually informed (Salman Rushdie Quotes)
Terror is glamour - not only, but also. I am firmly convinced that there’s something like a fascination with death among suicide bombers (Salman Rushdie Quotes)
Fundamentalists believe that we don’t believe in anything. In their view of the world, they are in possession of absolute certainties, while we are descending into decadence. We will be able to triumph over terrorism not by waging war on it, but through a conscious, fearless way of life (Salman Rushdie Quotes)
I accept there are people out there who don’t like me. I don’t like them (Salman Rushdie Quotes)
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 (Salman Rushdie Quotes)
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. (Salman Rushdie Quotes)
In today’s U.S., it’s possible for almost anyone - women, gays, African-Americans, Jews - to run for, and be elected to, high office. (Salman Rushdie Quotes)
All my adult life, if I didn’t have several hours a day to sit in a room by myself, I would get antsy and irritable. (Salman Rushdie Quotes)
I beat my sons in real-life table tennis, but virtually, I get murdered. I download games on the iPhone that I’m addicted to - I’m a master at Angry Birds. (Salman Rushdie Quotes)
I dislike arranged marriages. There are some mistakes for which one should not be able to blame one’s poor parents. (Salman Rushdie Quotes)
Many of us persons of the tinted persuasion care about human rights and artistic freedom too (Salman Rushdie Quotes)
Killing people because you don’t like their ideas - it’s a bad thing (Salman Rushdie Quotes)
... If Islam is to be reconciled with modernity, these voices must be encouraged until they swell into a roar. Many of them speak of another Islam, their personal, private faith. The restoration of religion to the sphere of the personal, its depoliticization, is the nettle that all Muslim societies must grasp in order to become modern. (Salman Rushdie Quotes)
People are always telling me that they’ve seen people reading my books on the subway, or the beach, or whenever. (Salman Rushdie Quotes)
Many men start being friendly with women because they are trying to seduce them. I’m not trying to seduce them. I just like hanging out with them. (Salman Rushdie Quotes)
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. (Salman Rushdie Quotes)