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All Salman Rushdie Quotes
Names, once they are in common use, quickly become mere sounds, their etymology being buried, like so many of the earth's marvels, beneath the dust of habit.
Salman Rushdie
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I do not need the idea of God to explain the world I live in.
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Writers and politicians are natural rivals. Both groups try to make the world in their own images; they fight for the same territory.
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Rock and roll music - the music of freedom frightens people and unleashes all manner of conservative defense mechanisms.
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Our lives are not what we deserve; they are, let us agree, in many ways deficient.
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In this world without quiet corners, there can be no easy escapes from history, from hullabaloo, from terrible, unquiet fuss.
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What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.
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Doubt, it seems to me, is the central condition of a human being in the twentieth century.
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Books choose their authors; the act of creation is not entirely a rational and conscious one.
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Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself.
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Sometimes legends make reality, and become more useful than the facts.
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Most of what matters in your life takes place in your absence.
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One of the extraordinary things about human events is that the unthinkable becomes thinkable.
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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.
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If I were asked for a one-sentence sound bite on religion, I would say I was against it.
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