104 ordspråk av Salman Rushdie
Salman Rushdie
 I've been gradually reclaiming all kinds of freedoms over these years.., |
| I've tried to live without fear. Fear paralyzes you. I've tried to get on with my life. |
| If I were asked for a one-sentence sound bite on religion, I would say I was against it |
| If Woody Allen were a Muslim, he'd be dead by now. |
| If you want to tell the untold stories, if you want to give voice to the voiceless, you've got to find a language. Which goes for film as well as prose, for documentary as well as autobiography. Use the wrong language, and you're dumb and blind. |
| In this world without quiet corners, there can be no easy escapes from history, from hullabaloo, from terrible, unquiet fuss. |
| Is that a threat? |
| It is high time, for starters, that Muslims were able to study the revelation of their religion as an event inside history, not supernaturally above it, |
| It is very, very easy not to be offended by a book. You just have to shut it. |
| It was because it was easier to blame me, ... You know, 'Why is he rocking the boat?' In those days there was a lot of that stuff. He was asking for it. He did it on purpose. He was begging for it. It was just conventional blaming-the-victim stuff. I don't like the term 'victim' when applied to myself. Certainly I felt the guilt burden had shifted from the people doing the violence to the person on the receiving end of the violence. |
| It's still open season on writers, |
| Life is fury, he'd thought. Fury — sexual, Oedipal, political, magical, brutal — drives us to our finest heights and coarsest depths. Out of furia comes creation, inspiration, originality, passion, but also violence, pain, pure unafraid destruction, the giving and receiving of blows from which we never recover. The Furies pursue us; Shiva dances his furious dance to create and also to destroy. But never mind about gods! Sara ranting at him represented the human spirit in its purest, least socialized form. This is what we are, what we civilize ourselves to disguise — the terrifying human animal in us, the exalted, transcendent, self-destructive, untramelled lord of creation. |
| 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. |
| many traditional Muslims lead lives apart, inward-turned lives of near-segregation from the wider population. |
| Meanwhile, it seems, the world is suffering from compassion fatigue, |
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