“A photograph is a moral decision taken in one eighth of a second. ”
— Salman Rushdie
“Reality is a question of perspective;.”
“English, no longer, an English language, now grows from many roots.”
“The moment you declare a set of ideas to be immune from criticism, satire, derision, or contempt, freedom of thought becomes impossible.”
“What can’t be cured must be endured.”
“Those who do not have power over the story that dominates their lives, power to retell it, to rethink it, deconstruct it, joke about it, and change it as times change, truly are powerless, because they cannot think new thoughts.”
“The only people who see the whole picture,? he murmured, ’are the ones who step out of the frame.”
“What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.”
“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.”
“Our lives teach us who we are.”
“I am the sum total of everything that went before me, of all I have been seen done, of everything done-to-me. I am everyone everything whose being-in-the-world affected was affected by mine. I am anything that happens after I’m gone which would not have happened if I had not come.”
“Respect for religion’ has become a code phrase meaning ‘fear of religion’. Religions, like all other ideas, deserve criticism, satire, and, yes, our fearless disrespect.”
“Broad-mindedness is related to tolerance; open-mindedness is the sibling of peace.”
“I don’t dictate to anyone what to believe and what not to. And I don’t want that to be dictated to me either.”
“Liberate yourself, because no one else is going to liberate you.”
“Make as much racket as you like people. Noise is life and an excess of noise is a sign that life is good. There will be time for us all to be quiet when we are safely dead.”
“If you’re offended, it’s your problem.”
“Hyperrealism can create an atmosphere of surrealism because nobody sees the world in such detail.”
“After a long, hopeless war, people will settle for peace, at almost any price.”
“We all owe death a life.”
“Home is the place where you feel happy.”
“This may be the curse of human race. Not that we are different from one anther, but we are so alike .”
“From the beginning men used God to justify the unjustifiable.”
“We are the storytelling animal.”
“Most of what matters in your life takes place in your absence.”
“In the cookie of life, friends are the chocolate chips.”
“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.”
“Now I know what a ghost is. Unfinished business, that’s what.”
“A mature society understands that at the heart of democracy is argument.”
“Vertigo is the conflict between the fear of falling and the desire to fall.”
“When you throw everything up in the air anything becomes possible.”
“I grew up kissing books and bread.”
“Rohinton Mistry’s celebrated novel ‘Such a Long Journey’ was pulled off the syllabus of Mumbai University because local extremists objected to its content.”
“When thought becomes excessively painful, action is the finest remedy.”
“We cannot allow religious hooligans to place limiting points on thought.”
“Thomas Pynchon looks exactly like Thomas Pynchon should look. He is tall, he wears lumberjack shirts and blue jeans. He has Albert Einstein white hair and Bugs Bunny front teeth.”
“How do you defeat terrorism? Don’t be terrorized.”
“When you know what you’re against you have taken the first step to discovering what you’re for.”
“Language is courage: the ability to conceive a thought, to speak it, and by doing so to make it true.”
“If you want to tell the untold stories, if you want to give voice to the voiceless, you’ve got to find a language. Which goes for film as well as prose, for documentary as well as autobiography. Use the wrong language, and you’re dumb and blind.”
“Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself.”
“Good advice is rarer than rubies.”
“She saw him fracture into rainbow colors through the prism of her love.”
“I’m not saying I am never going to fall in love again, but there is no need to marry.”
“Perhaps the story you finish is never the one you begin.”
“Ignorantly is how we all fall in love; for it is a kind of fall. Closing our eyes, we leap from that cliff in hope of a soft landing. Nor is it always soft; but still, without that leap nobody comes to life.”
“Free speech is life itself.”
“Between the adored and the adorer falls the shadow.”
“Bread and books: food for the body and food for the soul – what could be more worthy of our respect, and even love?”
“Two things form the bedrock of any open society – freedom of expression and rule of law. If you don’t have those things, you don’t have a free country.”
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