From the beginning men used God to justify the unjustifiable.
SALMAN RUSHDIERespect 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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In the cookie of life, friends are the chocolate chips.
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I stand with Charlie Hebdo, as we all must, to defend the art of satire.
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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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We cannot allow religious hooligans to place limiting points on thought.
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I admit it: above all things, I fear absurdity.
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We are the storytelling animal.
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Perhaps the story you finish is never the one you begin.
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One of the strange things about violent and authoritarian regimes is they don’t like the glare of negative publicity.
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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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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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It is very, very easy not to be offended by a book. You just have to shut it.
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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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One of the things a writer is for is to say the unsayable, speak the unspeakable and ask difficult questions.
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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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Science fiction is always a vehicle for ideas. It’s the form which allows either movies or books to be an exploration of how we should live.
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