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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What distinguishes a great artist from a weak one is first their sensibility and tenderness; second, their imagination, and third, their industry.

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Muslim Now

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Being

Doubt, it seems to me, is the central condition of a human being in the twentieth century.

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What can't be cured must be endured.

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World

A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it; or offer your own version in return.

- Salman Rushdie

Nobody has the right to not be offended. That right doesn't exist in any declaration I have ever read. If you are offended it is your problem, and frankly lots of things offend lots of people. I can walk into a bookshop and point out a number of books that I find very unattractive in what they say. But it doesn't occur to me to burn the bookshop down. If you don't like a book, read another book. If you start reading a book and you decide you don't like it, nobody is telling you to finish it. To read a 600-page novel and then say that it has deeply offended you: well, you have done a lot of work to be offended.

- Salman Rushdie

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