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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 Rushdie

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
Literature is where I go to explore the highest and lowest places in human society and in the human spirit, where I hope to find not absolute truth but the truth of the tale, of the imagination and of the heart.
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Exploration Heart Human Imagination Literature Place Society Spirit Truth
Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself.
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Freedom Game Life Talk
Religion, a mediaeval form of unreason, when combined with modern weaponry becomes a real threat to our freedoms. This religious totalitarianism has caused a deadly mutation in the heart of Islam and we see the tragic consequences in Paris today.
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Combination Freedom Heart Reason Religion Threat Tragedy
Too many people spouting too many words, and in the end those words will turn to bullets and stones.
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End People Weapon Word
You can’t have modern states based on ideas which have been out of date for a thousand years.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
What’s real and what’s true aren’t necessarily the same.
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Home Necessary Reality True
Language is courage: the ability to conceive a thought, to speak it, and by doing so to make it true.
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Ability Courage Language Talk Thinking True
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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Fake Mistake Name Poet Sleep Stop Work World
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
I’ve been worrying about God a little bit lately. It seems like he’s been in a bad mood. And I think it has to do with the quality of lovers he’s been getting.
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Bad God Himself Lover Mood Quality Worry
If you actually want to change your world, there is a better way of doing it than blowing yourself up.
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Better Change Way World Yourself
Respect for religion’ has become a code phrase meaning ‘fear of religion.’ Religions, like all other ideas, deserve criticism, satire, and, yes, our fearless disrespect.
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Criticism Deserve Fear Religion Respect
Where there is no belief, there is no blasphemy.
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Belief One Liner
Between the adored and the adorer falls the shadow.
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Admire Fall Fame Shadow
Self-censorship is a lie to yourself; if you are going to be trying to seriously create art, to create literary art, and you decide to hold back, to censor yourself, then you are a fool to yourself and it would be better that you kept your mouth shut and did not speak.
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Decision Lying Serious Talk Try

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.

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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.

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