Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself.
SALMAN RUSHDIESo 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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To understand just one life you have to swallow the world do you wonder, then, that I was a heavy child?
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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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We cannot allow religious hooligans to place limiting points on thought.
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Two things form the bedrock of any open society – freedom of expression and rule of law. If you don’t have those things, you don’t have a free country.
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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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We all owe death a life.
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We are the storytelling animal.
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Reality is a question of perspective.
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In the waking dreams our societies permit, in our myths, our arts, our songs, we celebrate the nonbelongers, the different ones, the outlaws, the freaks.
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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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What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.
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If you’re offended, it’s your problem.
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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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From the beginning men used God to justify the unjustifiable.
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