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Salman Rushdie Quotes - Page 7

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Self-censorship is a lie to yourself; if you are going to be trying to seriously create art, to create literary art, and you decide to hold back, to censor yourself, then you are a fool to yourself and it would be

Self-censorship is a lie to yourself; if you are going to be trying to seriously create art, to create literary art, and you decide to hold back, to censor yourself, then you are a fool to yourself and it would be better that you kept your mouth shut and did not speak.

Art, Lying, Self

"I'm returning to India, deal with it - Salman Rushdie to NDTV". Interview with Barkha Dutt, www.ndtv.com. January 25, 2012.

Only the foolish, blinded by language's conventions, think of fire as red or gold. Fire is blue at it's melancholy rim, green in it's envious heart. It may burn white, or even, in it's greatest rages, black.

Heart, Thinking, Fire

My horizon's have shrunk and I have only endings to write.

Writing, Horizon

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.

Religious, Views, People

The point is always reached after which the gods no longer share their lives with mortal men and women, they die or wither away or retire... Now that they've gone, the high drama's over. What remains is ordinary human life.

Drama, Men, Ordinary

"Salman Rushdie Spins a Yarn". Interview with James Mustich, www.barnesandnoble.com. June 2, 2008.

optimism is a disease

Optimism, Disease

Islam doesn't have to mean blind faith. It can mean what it always meant in your family, a culture, a civilization, as open-minded as your grandfather was, as delightedly disputatious as your father was.... Don't let the zealots make Muslim a terrifying word, I urged myself; remember when it meant family.

Father, Mean, Civilization

"Excerpts From Rushdie's Address: 1,000 Days 'Trapped Inside a Metaphor'". Address at Columbia University, www.nytimes.com. December 12, 1991.

If Islam is to be reconciled with modernity, these voices must be encouraged until they swell into a roar.

Order, Voice, Islam

"Moderate Muslims must roar, says Rushdie". www.cnn.com. November 3, 2001.

If you have children you worry about the world you're leaving them.

Children, Worry, Leaving

"The Bookers' favourite". Interview with Andrew Anthony, www.theguardian.com. April 5, 2008.

Rock and roll music - the music of freedom frightens people and unleashes all manner of conservative defense mechanisms.

Rocks, Rock And Roll, People

A novel, I think, is partly about the contemporary and partly about the eternal, and it's the balance of that that's difficult to achieve.

Thinking, Balance, Achieve

A sigh isn't just a sigh. We inhale the world and breathe out meaning. While we can. While we can.

World, Breathe, Sigh

Salman Rushdie (1995). “The Moor's last sigh”

Censorship is the thing that stops you doing what you want to do, and what writers want to talk about is what they do, not what stops them doing it.

Doing What You Want, Want, Censorship

"On Censorship" by Salman Rushdie, www.newyorker.com. May 11, 2012.

The answer to religion is not no religion, but another way of thinking of it. Another way of being in it.

Thinking, Answers, Way

Freedom is not a tea party, India. Freedom is a war.

War, Party, Tea

"Shalimar the Clown". Book by Salman Rushdie, September 6, 2005.

Things, even people have a way of leaking into each other like flavours when you cook.

People, Way, Flavour

If there is a choice between absolute safety and freedom, then freedom must always prevail.

Safety, Choices, Absolutes

"'Terror Is Glamour'". Spiegel Interview, www.spiegel.de. August 28, 2006.

I'd wanted to create a storm so that I could become more famous and richer.

Storm

Source: www.guernicamag.com

I do not envy people who think they have a complete explanation of the world, for the simple reason that they are obviously wrong.

Simple, Thinking, People

"Talking with David Frost (Salman Rushdie)". TV Series, November 26, 1993.

My father decided that he was such a admirer of Ibn Rushd's philosophy, thinking that he changed the family name to Rushdie. I realized why my father was so interested in him, because he was really an incredibly modernizing voice inside our Islamic culture.

Father, Philosophy, Islamic

Source: www.pbs.org

Music, love, death. Certainly a triangle of sorts; maybe even an eternal one. "The only people who can see the whole picture," he murmured, "are the ones who step out of the frame."

Feet, People, Triangles

"The Ground Beneath Her Feet". Book by Salman Rushdie, April 1999.

When you are making an independent film, money is never an issue.

Independent, Issues, Film

My heart broke open and history fell in.

Heart, My Heart, Broke

Salman Rushdie (2000). “The Ground Beneath Her Feet: A Novel”, p.336, Macmillan

O the shame of it, the humiliating shame of being condescended to by dolts

Shame, Humiliating

We live in a frightened time, and people self-censor all the time and are afraid of going into some subjects because they are worried about violent reactions.

Self, People, Worried

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