More - Salman Rushdie Quotes

Writers and politicians are natural rivals. Both groups try to make the world in their own images; they fight for the same territory.

Salman Rushdie

 Indian Novelist Politicians

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

Salman Rushdie

 Conservative

We must conclude that it is not only a particular political ideology that has failed, but the idea that men and women could ever define themselves in terms that exclude their spiritual needs.

Salman Rushdie

 Communism Ideology

What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist

Salman Rushdie

 Expression

There'll be one track that I like and a lot of it that is just wallpaper and sounds the same.

Salman Rushdie

 

Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself.

Salman Rushdie

 Indian Novelist

[He was also] the most tolerant, open-minded, intellectually generous, nonjudgmental adult that I ever met as a child, ... the spirit of my grandfather came to infuse the spirit of the place.

Salman Rushdie

 Adults

Meanwhile, it seems, the world is suffering from compassion fatigue,

Salman Rushdie

 Compassion

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

 Literature

I make no complaint. I am a writer. I do not accept my condition; I will strive to change it; but I inhabit it, I am trying to learn from it.

Salman Rushdie

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