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Salman Rushdie

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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Community Myself People Religious Result Writing
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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Enemy Fundamental heavy Offense Opinion Ourselves Thinking
What kind of Christmas present would Jesus ask Santa for?
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Funny Kind Present
I didn’t become a writer to write about me.
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Myself Writing
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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God Name Problem Religious World
What one writer can make in the solitude of one room is something no power can easily destroy.
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Destroy Easy Oneself Power Room Solitude Writing
Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself.
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Freedom Game Life Talk
He knew what he knew: that the real world was full of magic, so magical worlds could easily be real.
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Himself Magic Reality World
If you’re offended, it’s your problem.
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Offense Problem Yourself
For every snake, there is a ladder; for every ladder, a snake.
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Advice Game Ladder Life Snake
Of 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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Act Link People Religion Terrorism Torture Violence
My horizon’s have shrunk and I have only endings to write.
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End Limitation Myself Restriction Write
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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Fake Mistake Name Poet Sleep Stop Work World
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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Constitution Freedom Religious Right Talk
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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Evidence Family Funny Important Shame Story
Religion, a mediaeval form of unreason, when combined with modern weaponry becomes a real threat to our freedoms. This religious totalitarianism has caused a deadly mutation in the heart of Islam and we see the tragic consequences in Paris today.
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Combination Freedom Heart Reason Religion Threat Tragedy

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