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It is very, very easy not to be offended by a book. You just have to shut it.

Salman Rushdie

It is very, very easy not to be offended by a book. You just have to shut it.
SALMAN RUSHDIE

Book Easy Yourself
You can’t have modern states based on ideas which have been out of date for a thousand years.
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Ideas Modern Old Time Yourself
Until you know who you are you can’t write.
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Writing Yourself
You can find shame in every house, burning in an ashtray, hanging framed upon a wall, covering a bed. But nobody notices it any more.
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Bed Frame Hang Home Notice Shame Wall
Every time you finish a book, you have a terrible feeling that there’s just never going to be another one. But fortunately, so far, the next one has always shown up.
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Book Fortunate Terrible Time Yourself
People can do bad things with free speech as well as good. You have to defend the Ku Klux Klan as well as Martin Luther King. It’s like that. If you’re going to defend the principle, then you have to defend people who use the principle badly.
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Bad Defense Freedom People Principle Yourself
Perhaps the story you finish is never the one you begin.
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Beginning End Story Yourself
One of the things a writer is for is to say the unsayable, speak the unspeakable and ask difficult questions.
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Difficult Question Stay Talk Writing
I have always thought that these two ways of talking, one is the fantastic, the fable, the fairy tale, and the other being history, the scholarly study of what happened, I think they’re both amazing ways to understand human nature.
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Fairy Tale Fantasy Human Myself Talk Thinking Understand Way
Something was badly amiss with the spiritual life of the planet, Too many demons inside people claiming to believe in God.
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Bad Believe Demon God Life People Spiritual
An attack upon our ability to tell stories is not just censorship – it is a crime against our nature as human beings.
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Ability Crime Human Nature Story
Even when things are at their worst, there’s a little voice in your head saying, ‘Good story!’
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Goodness Head Story Voice Worst
What’s real and what’s true aren’t necessarily the same.
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Home Necessary Reality True
My horizon’s have shrunk and I have only endings to write.
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End Limitation Myself Restriction Write
I think if we wish to live in any kind of a moral universe, we must hold the perpetrators of violence responsible for the violence they perpetrate. It’s very simple. The criminal is responsible for the crime.
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Crime Kind Moral Responsible Simplicity Thinking Universe Violence
So India’s problem turns out to be the world’s problem. What happened in India has happened in God’s name. The problem’s name is God.
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God Name Problem Religious World

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