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A mature society understands that at the heart of democracy is argument.

A mature society understands that at the heart of democracy is argument.

Salman Rushdie
Heart, Democracy, Argument

Realism can break a writer's heart.

Salman Rushdie
Heart, Break, Realism

Religion, a mediaeval form of unreason, when combined with modern weaponry becomes a real threat to our freedoms. This religious totalitarianism has caused a deadly mutation in the heart of Islam and we see the tragic consequences in Paris today.

Salman Rushdie
Religious, Real, Heart
"Salman Rushdie condemns attack on Charlie Hebdo". www.englishpen.org. January 7, 2015.

Literature is where I go to explore the highest and lowest places in human society and in the human spirit, where I hope to find not absolute truth but the truth of the tale, of the imagination and of the heart.

Salman Rushdie
Heart, Imagination, Literature
The Hindu, February 26, 1995.

But love is what we want, not freedom. Who then is the unluckier man? The beloved, who is given his heart's desire and must for ever after fear its loss, or the free man, with his unlooked-for liberty, naked and alone between the captive armies of the earth?

Salman Rushdie
Heart, Loss, Army
Salman Rushdie (2000). “The Ground Beneath Her Feet: A Novel”, p.53, Macmillan

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.

Salman Rushdie
Heart, Thinking, Fire

My heart broke open and history fell in.

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

I am certainly not a good Muslim. But I am able now to say that I am Muslim; in fact it is a source of happiness to say that I am now inside, and a part of the community whose values have always been closest to my heart.

Salman Rushdie
Heart, Community, Able

Once you have been in an earthquake you know, even if you survive without a scratch, that like a stroke in the heart, it remains in the earth's breast, horribly potential, always promising to return, to hit you again, with an even more devastating force.

Salman Rushdie
Heart, Earthquakes, Scratches
Salman Rushdie (2000). “The Ground Beneath Her Feet: A Novel”, p.13, Macmillan

Live on, survive, for the earth gives forth wonders. It may swallow your heart, but the wonders keep on coming. You stand before them bareheaded, shriven. What is expected of you is attention.

Salman Rushdie
Heart, Giving, Attention
Salman Rushdie (2000). “The Ground Beneath Her Feet: A Novel”, p.145, Macmillan

The thing that I think was very brave of my younger self was that he decided he would be an idiot. Just persevere. That feels brave to me: deciding that I'm going to damn well be this person that I've set my heart on being.

Salman Rushdie
Heart, Thinking, Self
What I've Learned: Salman Rushdie" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. December 31, 2005.

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