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One of the strange things about violent and authoritarian regimes is they don’t like the glare of negative publicity.

Salman Rushdie

You can find shame in every house, burning in an ashtray, hanging framed upon a wall, covering a bed. But nobody notices it any more.
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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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You can’t have modern states based on ideas which have been out of date for a thousand years.
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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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When a reader falls in love with a book, it leaves its essence inside him, like radioactive fallout in an arable field, and after that there are certain crops that will no longer grow in him, while other, stranger, more fantastic growths may occasionally be produced.
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Free speech is not just free speech for people you admire. It’s also for people who you think of as reprehensible.
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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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Something was badly amiss with the spiritual life of the planet, Too many demons inside people claiming to believe in God.
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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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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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For every snake, there is a ladder; for every ladder, a snake.
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It matters, it always matters, to name rubbish as rubbish; that to do otherwise is to legitimize it.
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We cannot allow religious hooligans to place limiting points on thought.
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No, I don’t think it’s fair to label Islam ‘violent.’ But I will say that to my knowledge, no writer has ever gone into hiding for criticizing the Amish.
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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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