17 Blunt Quotes from Salman Rushdie
1. “Children are the vessels into which adults pour their poison.”
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How to defeat terrorism? Don't be terrorized. Don't let fear rule your life. Even if you are scared.”
― “Realism can break a writer's heart.”
― “faith without doubt is addiction”
― “Most of what matters in our lives takes place in our absence.”
― “Free societies...are societies in motion, and with motion comes tension, dissent, friction. Free people strike sparks, and those sparks are the best evidence of freedom's existence.”
― 7. “What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.”
― “Language is courage: the ability to conceive a thought, to speak it, and by doing so to make it true.”
― “To understand just one life, you have to swallow the world.”
― “I learned: the first lesson of my life: nobody can face the world with his eyes open all the time.”
― “Not all possibilities are open to us. The world is finite; our hopes spill over its rim.”
― “The moment you say that any idea system is sacred, whether it’s a religious belief system or a secular ideology, the moment you declare a set of ideas to be immune from criticism, satire, derision, or contempt, freedom of thought becomes impossible."
― “Fundamentalism isn't about religion, it's about power.”
― “The moment you say that any idea system is sacred, whether it’s a religious belief system or a secular ideology, the moment you declare a set of ideas to be immune from criticism, satire, derision, or contempt, freedom of thought becomes impossible.”
― “Meaning is a shaky edifice we build out of scraps, dogmas, childhood injuries, newspaper articles, chance remarks, old fillms, small victories, people hated, people loved; perhaps it is because our sense of what is the case is constructed from such inadequate materials that we defend it so fiercely, even to death.”
― “I admit it: above all things, I fear absurdity.”
― “perhaps, if one wishes to remain an individual in the midst of the teeming multitudes, one must make oneself grotesque.”
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17 Blunt Quotes from Salman Rushdie
Reviewed by Tim
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April 28, 2019
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