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I didn’t become a writer to write about me.

Salman Rushdie

What I do think is evident is that those countries in the world where Islamic extremism has recovered the most power, those are also the countries which are most disliked.
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Country Evidence Hate Power Recover Thinking World
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
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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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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Country Expression Freedom Law Rule Society
Faith without doubt is addiction.
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Addiction Doubt Faith
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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The only people who see the whole picture,’ he murmured, ‘are the ones who step out of the frame.
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Deep Frame People Photograph Thinking Wisdom
If you’re offended, it’s your problem.
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Offense Problem Yourself
What one writer can make in the solitude of one room is something no power can easily destroy.
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Destroy Easy Oneself Power Room Solitude Writing
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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Evidence Family Funny Important Shame Story
The world, somebody wrote, is the place we prove real by dying in it.
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Death Place Reality World
Once you put a thought into the world, it can be disagreed with, but it can’t be unthought.
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Thinking World Yourself
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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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
One of the things a writer is for is to say the unsayable, speak the unspeakable and ask difficult questions.
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Difficult Question Stay Talk Writing
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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Bad Believe Demon God Life People Spiritual

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