Too many people spouting too many words, and in the end those words will turn to bullets and stones.
SALMAN RUSHDIEOne of the things a writer is for is to say the unsayable, speak the unspeakable and ask difficult questions.
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If somebody’s trying to shut you up, sing louder, and if possible, better.
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From the beginning men used God to justify the unjustifiable.
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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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What kind of Christmas present would Jesus ask Santa for?
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I stand with Charlie Hebdo, as we all must, to defend the art of satire.
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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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If you actually want to change your world, there is a better way of doing it than blowing yourself up.
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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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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 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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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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How do you defeat terrorism? Don’t be terrorized.
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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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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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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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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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I think if we wish to live in any kind of a moral universe, we must hold the perpetrators of violence responsible for the violence they perpetrate. It’s very simple. The criminal is responsible for the crime.
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We cannot allow religious hooligans to place limiting points on thought.
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For every snake, there is a ladder; for every ladder, a snake.
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Language is courage: the ability to conceive a thought, to speak it, and by doing so to make it true.
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Perhaps the story you finish is never the one you begin.
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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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Reality is a question of perspective.
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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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Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself.
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Between the adored and the adorer falls the shadow.
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