--- title: "7 Arguing Quotes By Salman Rushdie" description: "7 Arguing quotes by Salman Rushdie. Plus more from Salman Rushdie and more Arguing sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f7f/salman-rushdie-153_aim_go-for-broke-always-try-and-do-too-much_72832.jpg" --- > [Go for broke. Always try and do too much. Dispense with safety nets. Take a deep breath before you begin talking. Aim…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/salman-rushdie/go-for-broke-always-try-and-do-too-much-dispense-with-safety-nets/) [Salman Rushdie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/salman-rushdie/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f7f/salman-rushdie-153_aim_go-for-broke-always-try-and-do-too-much_72832.jpg) > [“Ravings, in short, jealousy of the past, the worst kind of all.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/salman-rushdie/ravings-in-short-jealousy-of-the-past-the-worst-kind-of-all/) [Salman Rushdie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/salman-rushdie/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/928/salman-rushdie-153_arguing_ravings-in-short-jealousy-of-the-past-th_473376.jpg) > [Vulnerability of artists is definitely what makes organizations like PEN necessary because, as I tried to argue, the actual work that writers…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/salman-rushdie/vulnerability-of-artists-is-definitely-what-makes-organizations-like/) [Salman Rushdie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/salman-rushdie/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/db9/salman-rushdie-153_age_vulnerability-of-artists-is-definitely-w_675483.jpg) > [If you live in free countries, you don't have to spend all your life arguing about freedom because it is all around…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/salman-rushdie/if-you-live-in-free-countries-you-don-t-have-to-spend-all-your-life/) [Salman Rushdie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/salman-rushdie/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b25/salman-rushdie-153_arguing_if-you-live-in-free-countries-you-don-t_737495.jpg) > [I would argue that religion comes from a desire to get to the questions of, 'Where do we come from?' and 'How…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/salman-rushdie/i-would-argue-that-religion-comes-from-a-desire-to-get-to-the/) [Salman Rushdie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/salman-rushdie/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/442/salman-rushdie-153_answers_i-would-argue-that-religion-comes-from-a_834437.jpg) > [My parents gave me the gift of irreligion, of growing up without bothering to ask people what gods they held dear, assuming…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/salman-rushdie/my-parents-gave-me-the-gift-of-irreligion-of-growing-up-without/) [Salman Rushdie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/salman-rushdie/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/767/salman-rushdie-153_arguing_my-parents-gave-me-the-gift-of-irreligio_2865585.jpg) > [Human beings understand themselves and shape their futures by arguing and challenging and questioning and saying the un-sayable, not by bowing the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/salman-rushdie/human-beings-understand-themselves-and-shape-their-futures-by-arguing/) [Salman Rushdie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/salman-rushdie/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fd8/salman-rushdie-153_arguing_human-beings-understand-themselves-and-s_3182580.jpg) ## Other authors on Arguing ## More by Salman Rushdie > [If my child had prejudice in his head, I'd be ashamed. I would see it as my failure as a parent.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/salman-rushdie/if-my-child-had-prejudice-in-his-head-i-d-be-ashamed-i-would-see-it/) [Salman Rushdie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/salman-rushdie/) > [It's a terrible thing that your life turns into a good story.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/salman-rushdie/it-s-a-terrible-thing-that-your-life-turns-into-a-good-story/) [Salman Rushdie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/salman-rushdie/) > [Sometimes by a woodland stream he watched the water rush over the pebbled bed, its tiny modulations of bounce and flow. A woman's body…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/salman-rushdie/sometimes-by-a-woodland-stream-he-watched-the-water-rush-over-the/) [Salman Rushdie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/salman-rushdie/) > [I want to write novels. I want to write stories. I want to do the stuff that I became a writer to do.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/salman-rushdie/i-want-to-write-novels-i-want-to-write-stories-i-want-to-do-the-stuff/) [Salman Rushdie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/salman-rushdie/) > [If you want to be a serious writer, then you have to write what there is to write about. If you're going to pull…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/salman-rushdie/if-you-want-to-be-a-serious-writer-then-you-have-to-write-what-there/) [Salman Rushdie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/salman-rushdie/) > [“Después de exigir mi marcha, ya no posees jurisdicción en lo concerniente a mi salud.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/salman-rushdie/despu-s-de-exigir-mi-marcha-ya-no-posees-jurisdicci-n-en-lo/) [Salman Rushdie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/salman-rushdie/) > [If there is a choice between absolute safety and freedom, then freedom must always prevail.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/salman-rushdie/if-there-is-a-choice-between-absolute-safety-and-freedom-then-freedom/) [Salman Rushdie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/salman-rushdie/) > [I'm not a prophet, but I always thought it was natural for dictatorships to fall. I remember in 1989, two months before the fall…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/salman-rushdie/i-m-not-a-prophet-but-i-always-thought-it-was-natural-for/) [Salman Rushdie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/salman-rushdie/) > [I'd wanted to create a storm so that I could become more famous and richer.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/salman-rushdie/i-d-wanted-to-create-a-storm-so-that-i-could-become-more-famous-and/) [Salman Rushdie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/salman-rushdie/) > [Who what am I? My answer: I am the sum total of everything that went before me, of all I have been seen done,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/salman-rushdie/who-what-am-i-my-answer-i-am-the-sum-total-of-everything-that-went/) [Salman Rushdie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/salman-rushdie/) > [“...proving once again that there was no escape from recurrence.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/salman-rushdie/proving-once-again-that-there-was-no-escape-from-recurrence/) [Salman Rushdie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/salman-rushdie/) > [“information, in a stream-of-consciousness soliloquy that revealed the extent to which he had internalised the adversarial fragmentation of American culture and made it a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/salman-rushdie/information-in-a-stream-of-consciousness-soliloquy-that-revealed-the/) [Salman Rushdie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/salman-rushdie/) > [A little bit of one story joins onto an idea from another, and hey presto, . . . not old tales but new ones.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/salman-rushdie/a-little-bit-of-one-story-joins-onto-an-idea-from-another-and-hey/) [Salman Rushdie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/salman-rushdie/) > [I'm a novelist. Fortunately I don't have to rule the world.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/salman-rushdie/i-m-a-novelist-fortunately-i-don-t-have-to-rule-the-world/) [Salman Rushdie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/salman-rushdie/) > [The First Amendment defends all forms of speech including hate speech, which is why groups like Ku Klux Klan are allowed to utter their…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/salman-rushdie/the-first-amendment-defends-all-forms-of-speech-including-hate-speech/) [Salman Rushdie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/salman-rushdie/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/arguing/salman-rushdie/#itemlist", "name": "7 Arguing Quotes By Salman Rushdie", "numberOfItems": 7, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Go for broke. Always try and do too much. Dispense with safety nets. Take a deep breath before you begin talking. 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