What’s real and what’s true aren’t necessarily the same.
SALMAN RUSHDIEI 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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Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself.
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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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My horizon’s have shrunk and I have only endings to write.
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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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We were language’s magpies by nature, stealing whatever sounded bright and shiny.
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Between the adored and the adorer falls the shadow.
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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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One of the things a writer is for is to say the unsayable, speak the unspeakable and ask difficult questions.
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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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We all owe death a life.
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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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Only the foolish, blinded by language’s conventions, think of fire as red or gold. Fire is blue at it’s melancholy rim, green in it’s envious heart. It may burn white, or even, in it’s greatest rages, black.
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What kind of Christmas present would Jesus ask Santa for?
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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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Perhaps the story you finish is never the one you begin.
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