If you take a look at history, you will find that the understanding of what is good and evil has always existed before the individual religions. The religions were only invented by people afterwards, in order to express this idea.
SALMAN RUSHDIEWhat’s real and what’s true aren’t necessarily the same.
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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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Even when things are at their worst, there’s a little voice in your head saying, ‘Good story!’
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A poet’s work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it going to sleep.
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Language is courage: the ability to conceive a thought, to speak it, and by doing so to make it true.
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It is very, very easy not to be offended by a book. You just have to shut it.
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I stand with Charlie Hebdo, as we all must, to defend the art of satire.
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Two things form the bedrock of any open society – freedom of expression and rule of law. If you don’t have those things, you don’t have a free country.
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Until you know who you are you can’t write.
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The world, somebody wrote, is the place we prove real by dying in it.
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Those who do not have power over the story that dominates their lives, power to retell it, to rethink it, deconstruct it, joke about it, and change it as times change, truly are powerless, because they cannot think new thoughts.
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Religion is responsible for a lot of the problems in the history of the world and it’s not something that I practice or recommend, but to each his own.
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He knew what he knew: that the real world was full of magic, so magical worlds could easily be real.
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It matters, it always matters, to name rubbish as rubbish; that to do otherwise is to legitimize it.
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I have never really thought of myself as a writer about religion. And I think one of the things that happened to me as a result of all that is that I think it did for some people, many people, obscure the kind of writer that I actually am.
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Stories in families are colossally important. Every family has stories: some funny, some proud, some embarrassing, some shameful. Knowing them is proof of belonging to the family.
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