When thought becomes excessively painful... by Salman Rushdie | We Heart Quotes

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When thought becomes excessively painful, action is the finest remedy.

- Salman Rushdie

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From the beginning men used God to justify the unjustifiable.

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Muslim Now

If Woody Allen were a Muslim, he'd be dead by now.

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History

Throughout human history, the apostles of purity, those who have claimed to possess a total explanation, have wrought havoc among mere mixed-up human beings.

- Salman Rushdie

Morality

The acceptance that all that is solid has melted into the air, that reality and morality are not givens but imperfect human constructs, is the point from which fiction begins.

- Salman Rushdie

When a reader falls in love with a book, it leaves its essence inside him, like radioactive fallout in an arable field, and after that there are certain crops that will no longer grow in him, while other, stranger, more fantastic growths may occasionally be produced.

- Salman Rushdie

To understand just one life, you have to swallow the world.

- Salman Rushdie

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