How do you defeat terrorism? Don’t be terrorized.
SALMAN RUSHDIEWhat one writer can make in the solitude of one room is something no power can easily destroy.
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What one writer can make in the solitude of one room is something no power can easily destroy.
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I don’t dictate to anyone what to believe and what not to. And I don’t want that to be dictated to me either.
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Liberate yourself, because no one else is going to liberate you.
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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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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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Once you put a thought into the world, it can be disagreed with, but it can’t be unthought.
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The only people who see the whole picture,’ he murmured, ‘are the ones who step out of the frame.
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If somebody’s trying to shut you up, sing louder, and if possible, better.
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From the beginning men used God to justify the unjustifiable.
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Ignorantly is how we all fall in love; for it is a kind of fall. Closing our eyes, we leap from that cliff in hope of a soft landing. Nor is it always soft; but still, without that leap nobody comes to life.
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We all owe death a life.
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Reality is a question of perspective.
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I write books I’d enjoy reading, I’m the reader standing behind my shoulder.
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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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Among the great struggles of man-good/evil, reason/unreason, etc.-there is also this mighty conflict between the fantasy of Home and the fantasy of Away, the dream of roots and the mirage of the journey.
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