I stand with Charlie Hebdo, as we all must, to defend the art of satire.
SALMAN RUSHDIEAmong 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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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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You can’t have modern states based on ideas which have been out of date for a thousand years.
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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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It matters, it always matters, to name rubbish as rubbish; that to do otherwise is to legitimize it.
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Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself.
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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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Even when things are at their worst, there’s a little voice in your head saying, ‘Good story!’
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If somebody’s trying to shut you up, sing louder, and if possible, better.
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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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My horizon’s have shrunk and I have only endings to write.
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Our lives, our stories, flowed into one another’s, were no longer our own, individual, discrete.
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The world, somebody wrote, is the place we prove real by dying in 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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I write books I’d enjoy reading, I’m the reader standing behind my shoulder.
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We are the storytelling animal.
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