Salman Rushdie Quotes (98 quotes)

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„The Christian Coalition is still about Christianity, even if it's an idea of Christianity that many Christians might not go along with.“
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„In any authoritarian society, the possessor of power dictates, and if you try and step outside, he will come after you. This is equally true of Sovietism, of China and of Iran, and in our time it has happened a lot in Islam. The point is that it's worse when the authoritarianism is supported by something supernatural.“
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„If the creative artist worries if he will still be free tomorrow, then he will not be free today.“
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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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„Speaking as somebody with three sisters and a very largely female Muslim family, there is not a single woman I know in my family or in their friends who would have accepted the wearing of a veil.“
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„At the height of the British Empire very few English novels were written that dealt with British power. It's extraordinary that at the moment in which England was the global superpower the subject of British power appeared not to interest most writers.“
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„Sometimes I think that when people become famous, there's a public perception that they are not human beings any more. They don't have feelings; they don't get hurt; you can act and say as you like about them.“
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„Memory is a way of telling you what's important to you.“
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„In a novel, if you're any good, you don't just have good people or bad people. You have complicated people. You have real people.“
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„Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself.“
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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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„This is going to make me sound ancient, but I remember Juhu Beach when there weren't any buildings on it. You'd go through countryside and arrive at this amazing beach. I remember driving from Delhi to the Qutab Minar through countryside. Mehrauli was a little village - that's all gone.“
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„The miniatures of the Mughal period are really the pinnacle of Indian artistic achievement. And not a single one of those paintings is done by an individual artist.“
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„It is often said by religious people that without its framework, there is no sense of right or wrong. My view is that religion comes after ethics.“
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„I do have a lot of time for people in my life, and friendship is a very important subject for me. I think I'm unusual among the writers I know in that respect.“
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„Writers shouldn't have lives that are interesting. It gets in the way of your work.“
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„If Turkey wants to join Europe, it will have to become a European country, and that might take a long time.“
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„You don't that often see writers being sought out when there are matters of great moment to discuss. And I think that's a loss.“
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„A thing that happens to migrants is that they lose many of the traditional things which root identity, which root the self.“
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„You don't fight radical conservatism with not-quite-so radical conservatism.“
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Salman Rushdie
Author born: June 19, 1947
Nationality: Indian
Author Profession: Novelist

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