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 RUSHDIEEven when things are at their worst, there’s a little voice in your head saying, ‘Good story!’
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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 is very, very easy not to be offended by a book. You just have to shut it.
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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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Masks beneath masks until suddenly the bare bloodless skull.
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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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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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What I do think is evident is that those countries in the world where Islamic extremism has recovered the most power, those are also the countries which are most disliked.
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Liberate yourself, because no one else is going to liberate you.
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Once you put a thought into the world, it can be disagreed with, but it can’t be unthought.
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I’ve been worrying about God a little bit lately. It seems like he’s been in a bad mood. And I think it has to do with the quality of lovers he’s been getting.
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I admit it: above all things, I fear absurdity.
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The moment you declare a set of ideas to be immune from criticism, satire, derision, or contempt, freedom of thought becomes impossible.
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What kind of Christmas present would Jesus ask Santa for?
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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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One of the things a writer is for is to say the unsayable, speak the unspeakable and ask difficult questions.
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