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Those who oppose the novel most vociferously today are of the opinion that intermingling with a different culture will inevitably weaken and ruin their own. I am of the opposite opinion.

— Salman Rushdie Imaginary Homelands (1992)

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The only people who see the whole picture are the ones who step outside the frame.

The Ground Beneath Her Feet (1999)

What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.

Imaginary Homelands p. 391 (1992)

I do not envy people who think they have a complete explanation of the world, for the simple reason that they are obviously wrong.

Salman Rushdie — Talking with David Frost (1993)

To choose unbelief is to choose mind over dogma, to trust in our humanity instead of all these dangerous divinities.

Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself.

Address at Columbia University (1991)

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