“It's obvious that I come down on the side of free speech for anybody's work.”
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Famous Salman Rushdie Quotes
“It's true that the human body is more vulnerable than the products of the human mind.”
“Killing people because you don't like their ideas - it's a bad thing.”
“Look at history. It's not the account of a species at peace.”
“My children are English, and both of their mothers were English.”
“My grandmother was very fierce and gruff. She was quite small, but she was very wide.”
“Nobody wants to read a 600 page book in which the author is fabulous throughout.”
“Sometimes when you finish a book, you don't know quite what you've got.”
Source: The Satanic Verses
“The Chinese are good at repression and can be pretty ruthless about it.”
“The glamour of being forbidden must not be underestimated.”
“The problem of telling contemporary history is that your message gets outdated.”
Source: Joseph Anton
“There is no such thing as perfect security, only varying levels of insecurity.”
“We cannot allow religious hooligans to place limiting points on thought.”
“When you are making an independent film, money is never an issue.”
“When you have children, your perspective on the parent-child relationship alters.”
“Writers have been in terrible situations and have yet managed to produce extraordinary work.”
“You can't have modern states based on ideas which have been out of date for a thousand years.”
“You don't fight radical conservatism with not-quite-so radical conservatism.”
“You want all your books to stick around after you've gone.”