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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.

Salman Rushdie

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
We are the storytelling animal.
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Animal Story Talk
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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Enemy Fundamental heavy Offense Opinion Ourselves Thinking
I write books I’d enjoy reading, I’m the reader standing behind my shoulder.
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Book Myself Reading Writing
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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Bed Frame Hang Home Notice Shame Wall
It seems that the right of freedom of speech that was enshrined in numerous constitutions is now under attack by religious institutions.
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Constitution Freedom Religious Right Talk
Faith without doubt is addiction.
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Addiction Doubt Faith
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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Act Link People Religion Terrorism Torture Violence
What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.
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Existence Expression Freedom Offense
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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Exploration Heart Human Imagination Literature Place Society Spirit Truth
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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Book Exploration Fiction Ideas Love Movie Science
What’s real and what’s true aren’t necessarily the same.
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Home Necessary Reality True
Our lives, our stories, flowed into one another’s, were no longer our own, individual, discrete.
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Live Ourselves Story
If you actually want to change your world, there is a better way of doing it than blowing yourself up.
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Better Change Way World Yourself
I have always thought that these two ways of talking, one is the fantastic, the fable, the fairy tale, and the other being history, the scholarly study of what happened, I think they’re both amazing ways to understand human nature.
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Fairy Tale Fantasy Human Myself Talk Thinking Understand Way
If you’re offended, it’s your problem.
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Offense Problem Yourself

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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