The lessons one learns at school are not always the ones the school thinks it’s teaching.
SALMAN RUSHDIEIt is very, very easy not to be offended by a book. You just have to shut it.
More Salman Rushdie Quotes
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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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Ignorantly is how we all fall in love; for it is a kind of fall. Closing our eyes, we leap from that cliff in hope of a soft landing. Nor is it always soft; but still, without that leap nobody comes to life.
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The only people who see the whole picture,’ he murmured, ‘are the ones who step out of the frame.
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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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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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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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If you’re offended, it’s your problem.
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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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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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Once you put a thought into the world, it can be disagreed with, but it can’t be unthought.
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For every snake, there is a ladder; for every ladder, a snake.
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Our lives, our stories, flowed into one another’s, were no longer our own, individual, discrete.
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I admit it: above all things, I fear absurdity.
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I stand with Charlie Hebdo, as we all must, to defend the art of satire.
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