Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself.
SALMAN RUSHDIEStories 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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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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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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Literature is the one place in any society where, within the secrecy of our own heads, we can hear voices talking about everything in every possible way.
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I didn’t become a writer to write about me.
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For every snake, there is a ladder; for every ladder, a snake.
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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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It matters, it always matters, to name rubbish as rubbish; that to do otherwise is to legitimize it.
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One of the things a writer is for is to say the unsayable, speak the unspeakable and ask difficult questions.
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We all owe death a life.
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To understand just one life you have to swallow the world do you wonder, then, that I was a heavy child?
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I don’t dictate to anyone what to believe and what not to. And I don’t want that to be dictated to me either.
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In the cookie of life, friends are the chocolate chips.
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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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The lessons one learns at school are not always the ones the school thinks it’s teaching.
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We have come to think of taking offence as a fundamental right. We value very little more highly than our rage, which gives us, in our opinion, the moral high ground. From there we can shoot down at our enemies and inflict heavy fatalities.
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