What kind of Christmas present would Jesus ask Santa for?
SALMAN RUSHDIEReality is a question of perspective.
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I stand with Charlie Hebdo, as we all must, to defend the art of satire.
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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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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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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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I didn’t become a writer to write about me.
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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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I admit it: above all things, I fear absurdity.
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Too many people spouting too many words, and in the end those words will turn to bullets and stones.
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Between the adored and the adorer falls the shadow.
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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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Our lives, our stories, flowed into one another’s, were no longer our own, individual, discrete.
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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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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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One of the things a writer is for is to say the unsayable, speak the unspeakable and ask difficult questions.
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For every snake, there is a ladder; for every ladder, a snake.
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