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Religion is responsible for a lot of the problems in the history of the world and it’s not something that I practice or recommend, but to each his own.

Salman Rushdie

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
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
You can’t have modern states based on ideas which have been out of date for a thousand years.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
I didn’t become a writer to write about me.
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Myself Writing
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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Ability Crime Human Nature Story
Masks beneath masks until suddenly the bare bloodless skull.
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Blood Head Hide Mask
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
Between the adored and the adorer falls the shadow.
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Admire Fall Fame Shadow
From the beginning men used God to justify the unjustifiable.
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Beginning God Justice Man People
Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself.
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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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Criticism Deserve Fear Religion Respect
We cannot allow religious hooligans to place limiting points on thought.
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Limitation Place Religious Thinking
The moment you declare a set of ideas to be immune from criticism, satire, derision, or contempt, freedom of thought becomes impossible.
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I stand with Charlie Hebdo, as we all must, to defend the art of satire.
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What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.
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It matters, it always matters, to name rubbish as rubbish; that to do otherwise is to legitimize it.
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Religion is responsible for a lot of the problems in the history of the world and it’s not something that I practice or recommend, but to each his own.

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