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It matters, it always matters, to name rubbish as rubbish; that to do otherwise is to legitimize it.

Salman Rushdie

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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God Name Problem Religious World
What one writer can make in the solitude of one room is something no power can easily destroy.
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Destroy Easy Oneself Power Room Solitude Writing
For every snake, there is a ladder; for every ladder, a snake.
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Advice Game Ladder Life Snake
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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Head Literature Place Possible Secret Society Talk Voice Way
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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Ability Crime Human Nature Story
We cannot allow religious hooligans to place limiting points on thought.
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Limitation Place Religious Thinking
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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Country Evidence Hate Power Recover Thinking World
Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself.
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Freedom Game Life Talk
Too many people spouting too many words, and in the end those words will turn to bullets and stones.
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End People Weapon Word
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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Believe Direction Myself
You can’t have modern states based on ideas which have been out of date for a thousand years.
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Ideas Modern Old Time Yourself
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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Bad God Himself Lover Mood Quality Worry
I write books I’d enjoy reading, I’m the reader standing behind my shoulder.
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Book Myself Reading Writing
The world, somebody wrote, is the place we prove real by dying in it.
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Death Place Reality World
Once you put a thought into the world, it can be disagreed with, but it can’t be unthought.
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Thinking World Yourself
He knew what he knew: that the real world was full of magic, so magical worlds could easily be real.
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Himself Magic Reality World

It matters, it always matters, to name rubbish as rubbish; that to do otherwise is to legitimize it.

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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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