Actually, I don't even like parties. I would much prefer a room with four friends who sit around and have dinner. I detest nightclubs. And I don't like places where the noise is so loud you can't talk to people.
- Salman Rushdie
More Quotes By Salman Rushdie
What one writer can make in the solitude of one room is something no power can easily destroy.
In the cookie of life, friends are the chocolate chips.
In an ideal world, you could reunite the Pakistan-occupied part of Kashmir with the Indian-occupied part and restore... There are things you break that can’t be put back together again. And Kashmir may be one of... Rock and roll music – the music of freedom frightens people and unleashes all manner of conservative defense... Religion, a mediaeval form of unreason, when combined with modern weaponry becomes a real threat to our freedoms.... What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.
One of the extraordinary things about human events is that the unthinkable becomes thinkable.
Language is courage: the ability to conceive a thought, to speak it, and by doing so to make... Language upon a silvered tongue affords enchantment enough.
‘Respect for religion’ has become a code phrase meaning ‘fear of religion.’ Religions, like all other ideas, deserve... The whole story of migration and what that has done in interconnecting the planet is obviously something I’ve... If you look at Indian movies, every time they wanted an exotic locale, they would have a dance... It matters, it always matters, to name rubbish as rubbish; that to do otherwise is to legitimize it.
faith without doubt is addiction
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