Salman Rushdie Quotes
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Friendships are the family we make - not the one we inherit. I've always been someone to whom friendship, elective affinities, is as important as family.
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When you have children, your perspective on the parent-child relationship alters.
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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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Original thought, original artistic expression is by its very nature questioning, irreverent, iconoclastic.
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There is no such thing as perfect security, only varying levels of insecurity.
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Many writers who have had to deal with the subject of atrocity can't face it head-on.
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All art began as sacred art, you know? I mean, all painting began as religious painting. All writing began as religious writing.
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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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Mo Yan is the Chinese equivalent of the Soviet Russian apparatchik writer Mikhail Sholokhov: a patsy of the regime.
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Our lives are not what we deserve; they are, let us agree, in many ways deficient.
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I'm no friend of Tony Blair's and I consider the Middle East policies of the United States and the UK fatal.
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Free societies are societies in motion, and with motion comes friction.
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If bigots behave like bigots, it's not a huge surprise.
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If there were Israeli attacks on Iranian nuclear facilities, it makes it certain there would be a reprisal attack against the United States at some point.
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Certainly, the Hollywood cinema, there's almost nothing of interest coming out of there.
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What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.
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Hyperrealism can create an atmosphere of surrealism because nobody sees the world in such detail.
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Cruelty is not a literary value.
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I will come back to India - so deal with it.
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There is no right in the world not to be offended. That right simply doesn’t exist. In a free society, an open society, people have strong opinions, and these opinions very often clash. In a democracy, we have to learn to deal with this. And this is true about novels, it’s true about cartoons, it’s true about all these products.
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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.
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Rock n' roll was a kid when I was a kid.
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Before I came to England, my favorite authors were P. G. Wodehouse and Agatha Christie. I used to devour both.
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Look at history. It's not the account of a species at peace.