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Salman Rushdie Quotes
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We are the only animals that tell stories to understand the world we live in (Salman Rushdie Quotes)
You never know the answers to the questions of life until you are asked (Salman Rushdie Quotes)
When we stop believing in the gods we can start believing in their stories (Salman Rushdie Quotes)
After a long, hopeless war, people will settle for peace, at almost any price (Salman Rushdie Quotes)
If somebody’s trying to shut you up, sing louder, and if possible, better (Salman Rushdie Quotes)
If you take a look at history, you will find that the understanding of what is good and evil has always existed before the individual religions. The religions were only invented by people afterwards, in order to express this idea (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)
A poet's work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it going to sleep (Salman Rushdie Quotes)
I've never had very high regard for therapists. I owe my health, my mental survival, to my friends and loved ones (Salman Rushdie Quotes)
In this world without quiet corners, there can be no easy escapes from history, from hullabaloo, from terrible, unquiet fuss (Salman Rushdie Quotes)
Rock and roll music - the music of freedom frightens people and unleashes all manner of conservative defense mechanisms (Salman Rushdie Quotes)
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 (Salman Rushdie Quotes)
The idea of the sacred is quite simply one of the most conservative notions in any culture, because it seeks to turn other ideas - uncertainty, progress, change into crimes (Salman Rushdie Quotes)
The only way of living in a free society is to feel that you have the right to say and do stuff (Salman Rushdie Quotes)
What distinguishes a great artist from a weak one is first their sensibility and tenderness; second, their imagination, and third, their industry (Salman Rushdie Quotes)
What one writer can make in the solitude of one room is something no power can easily destroy (Salman Rushdie Quotes)
If I were asked for a one-sentence sound bite on religion, I would say I was against it (Salman Rushdie Quotes)
It matters, it always matters, to name rubbish as rubbish... to do otherwise is to legitimize it (Salman Rushdie Quotes)
I do not envy people who think they have a complete explanation of the world, for the simple reason that they are obviously wrong (Salman Rushdie Quotes)
It’s fun to read things when you don’t know all the words. Even children love it... they come up against weird words, and the weird words excite them (Salman Rushdie Quotes)
The worst, most insidious effect of censorship is that, in the end, it can deaden the imagination of the people. Where there is no debate, it is hard to go on remembering, every day, that there is a suppressed side to every argument (Salman Rushdie Quotes)
You can adhere to your faith, but that faith needs to march in line with the rest of the world and needs to find a way of expressing itself in the modern world (Salman Rushdie Quotes)
I think people direct good films when they feel personal to them, not because it’s a famous book or something. It has to something move over that and somehow become personal to the director (Salman Rushdie Quotes)
What I’ve always seen in writers and artists is the courage it takes to make an original work of art. I think the real risks in literature are linguistic and intellectual, and I hope we can highlight those, as well as political courage (Salman Rushdie Quotes)
I think it’s a very important function of art to challenge accepted reality, especially when that reality is created by powerful interest groups (Salman Rushdie Quotes)
I have no problem with people’s religious beliefs. I just don’t happen to have any (Salman Rushdie Quotes)
Literature is where I go to explore the highest and lowest places in human society and in the human spirit, where I hope to find not absolute truth but the truth of the tale, of the imagination and of the heart (Salman Rushdie Quotes)
I don’t dictate to anyone what to believe and what not to. And I don’t want that to be dictated to me either (Salman Rushdie Quotes)
Science fiction is always a vehicle for ideas. It’s the form which allows either movies or books to be an exploration of how we should live (Salman Rushdie Quotes)
The world is about the way in which our dreams intersect with our real life. Endlessly, the world of the imagination changes the world (Salman Rushdie Quotes)