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.
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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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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Our lives, our stories, flowed into one another’s, were no longer our own, individual, discrete.
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In the cookie of life, friends are the chocolate chips.
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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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The world, somebody wrote, is the place we prove real by dying in it.
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How do you defeat terrorism? Don’t be terrorized.
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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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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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What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.
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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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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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Perhaps the story you finish is never the one you begin.
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Self-censorship is a lie to yourself; if you are going to be trying to seriously create art, to create literary art, and you decide to hold back, to censor yourself, then you are a fool to yourself and it would be better that you kept your mouth shut and did not speak.
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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.
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We are the storytelling animal.
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