It seems that the right of freedom of speech that was enshrined in numerous constitutions is now under attack by religious institutions.
SALMAN RUSHDIEWhen 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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I admit it: above all things, I fear absurdity.
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Perhaps the story you finish is never the one you begin.
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Until you know who you are you can’t write.
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Literature is where I go to explore the highest and lowest places in human society and in the human spirit, where I hope to find not absolute truth but the truth of the tale, of the imagination and of the heart.
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We are the storytelling animal.
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I write books I’d enjoy reading, I’m the reader standing behind my shoulder.
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If you take a look at history, you will find that the understanding of what is good and evil has always existed before the individual religions. The religions were only invented by people afterwards, in order to express this idea.
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What one writer can make in the solitude of one room is something no power can easily destroy.
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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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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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What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.
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One of the strange things about violent and authoritarian regimes is they don’t like the glare of negative publicity.
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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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If you’re offended, it’s your problem.
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Masks beneath masks until suddenly the bare bloodless skull.
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