What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.
SALMAN RUSHDIEWhere there is no belief, there is no blasphemy.
More Salman Rushdie Quotes
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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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It seems that the right of freedom of speech that was enshrined in numerous constitutions is now under attack by religious institutions.
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Reality is a question of perspective.
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Friendships are the family we make – not the one we inherit. I’ve always been someone to whom friendship, elective affinities, is as important as family.
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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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What kind of Christmas present would Jesus ask Santa for?
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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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Between the adored and the adorer falls the shadow.
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Every time you finish a book, you have a terrible feeling that there’s just never going to be another one. But fortunately, so far, the next one has always shown up.
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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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I stand with Charlie Hebdo, as we all must, to defend the art of satire.
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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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We were language’s magpies by nature, stealing whatever sounded bright and shiny.
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Free speech is not just free speech for people you admire. It’s also for people who you think of as reprehensible.
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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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