“What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.” ― Salman Rushdie
Found on Goodreads at https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/3299.Salman_Rushdie.
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Showing posts with label Salman Rushdie. Show all posts
Thursday, September 7, 2023
Thursday, August 31, 2023
Someone Who Knows You Disappears, Lose One Version, Salman Rushdie
“Whenever someone who knows you disappears, you lose one version of yourself. Yourself as you were seen, as you were judged to be. Lover or enemy, mother or friend, those who know us construct us, and their several knowings slant the different facets of our characters like diamond-cutter's tools. Each such loss is a step leading to the grave, where all versions blend and end.” ― Salman Rushdie, The Ground Beneath Her Feet
Found on Goodreads at https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/3299.Salman_Rushdie.
Found on Goodreads at https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/3299.Salman_Rushdie.
Saturday, August 26, 2023
Sum Total, Everything, Salman Rushdie
“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.” ― Salman Rushdie, Midnight's Children
Found on Goodreads at https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/3299.Salman_Rushdie.
Found on Goodreads at https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/3299.Salman_Rushdie.
Monday, August 21, 2023
Not Be Offended, Your Problem, Don't Like a Book, Read Another Book, Salman Rushdie
“Nobody has the right to not be offended. That right doesn't exist in any declaration I have ever read.
"If you are offended it is your problem, and frankly lots of things offend lots of people.
"I can walk into a bookshop and point out a number of books that I find very unattractive in what they say. But it doesn't occur to me to burn the bookshop down. If you don't like a book, read another book. If you start reading a book and you decide you don't like it, nobody is telling you to finish it.
"To read a 600-page novel and then say that it has deeply offended you: well, you have done a lot of work to be offended.” ― Salman Rushdie
Found on Goodreads at https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/3299.Salman_Rushdie.
"If you are offended it is your problem, and frankly lots of things offend lots of people.
"I can walk into a bookshop and point out a number of books that I find very unattractive in what they say. But it doesn't occur to me to burn the bookshop down. If you don't like a book, read another book. If you start reading a book and you decide you don't like it, nobody is telling you to finish it.
"To read a 600-page novel and then say that it has deeply offended you: well, you have done a lot of work to be offended.” ― Salman Rushdie
Found on Goodreads at https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/3299.Salman_Rushdie.
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