Argument Quote by Salman Rushdie

“Unfortunately, the problem of the free speech argument is that you have to defend people you can't stand.”

Salman Rushdie

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If my child had prejudice in his head, I'd be ashamed. I would see it as my failure as a parent.

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It's a terrible thing that your life turns into a good story.

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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…

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I want to write novels. I want to write stories. I want to do the stuff that I became a writer to do.

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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…

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“Después de exigir mi marcha, ya no posees jurisdicción en lo concerniente a mi salud.”

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If there is a choice between absolute safety and freedom, then freedom must always prevail.

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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…

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I'd wanted to create a storm so that I could become more famous and richer.

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Who what am I? My answer: I am the sum total of everything that went before me, of all I have been seen done,…

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“...proving once again that there was no escape from recurrence.”

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“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…

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