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.
Salman RushdieThe only way to find out why someone decides to engage in armed combat is to look at their individual personality.
Salman RushdieYouTube is full of pieces of trash. If you want to look on YouTube and find something that insults you, you can probably find it.
Salman RushdieWhat I've always tried to find in my books are points at which the private lives of the characters, and also my own, intersect with the public life of the culture.
Salman RushdieI don't think people cry reading 'Midnight's Children,' but a lot of people seem to cry watching the movie.
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