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.
SALMAN RUSHDIEOf course, there is nothing intrinsic linking any religion with any act of violence. The crusades don’t prove that Christianity was violent. The Inquisition doesn’t prove that Christianity tortures people. But that Christianity did torture people.
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I admit it: above all things, I fear absurdity.
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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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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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So India’s problem turns out to be the world’s problem. What happened in India has happened in God’s name. The problem’s name is God.
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The lessons one learns at school are not always the ones the school thinks it’s teaching.
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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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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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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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We were language’s magpies by nature, stealing whatever sounded bright and shiny.
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We cannot allow religious hooligans to place limiting points on thought.
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I write books I’d enjoy reading, I’m the reader standing behind my shoulder.
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What one writer can make in the solitude of one room is something no power can easily destroy.
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Between the adored and the adorer falls the shadow.
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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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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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