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Famous Salman Rushdie Quotes
“Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself.”
“I do not need the idea of God to explain the world I live in.”
“Vertigo is the conflict between the fear of falling and the desire to fall.”
“Books choose their authors; the act of creation is not entirely a rational and conscious one.”
“It is very, very easy not to be offended by a book. You just have to shut it.”
“Sometimes legends make reality, and become more useful than the facts.”
“Doubt, it seems to me, is the central condition of a human being in the twentieth century.”
“If my child had prejudice in his head, I'd be ashamed. I would see it as my failure as a parent.”
“One of the extraordinary things about human events is that the unthinkable becomes thinkable.”
“Most of what matters in your life takes place in your absence.”
“When you write, you write out of your best self. Everything else drops away.”
“Our lives teach us who we are.”
“British society has never been cleansed of the filth of imperialism.”
“I hate admitting that my enemies have a point.”
“A mature society understands that at the heart of democracy is argument.”
“A relationship with an imaginary woman is preferable to a relationship with a real one.”
“Acting was always my unscratched itch, when I was in college and even afterwards.”
“Airport security exists to guard us against terrorist attacks.”
“Be sure that you go to the author to get at his meaning, not to find yours.”
“Broad-mindedness is related to tolerance; open-mindedness is the sibling of peace.”
“Certainly, the Hollywood cinema, there's almost nothing of interest coming out of there.”
“Children like being a little scared, but they don't want to be disturbed.”