How do you defeat terrorism? Don’t be terrorized.
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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Even when things are at their worst, there’s a little voice in your head saying, ‘Good story!’
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In the cookie of life, friends are the chocolate chips.
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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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If somebody’s trying to shut you up, sing louder, and if possible, better.
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Liberate yourself, because no one else is going to liberate you.
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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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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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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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Once you put a thought into the world, it can be disagreed with, but it can’t be unthought.
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The lessons one learns at school are not always the ones the school thinks it’s teaching.
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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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Our lives, our stories, flowed into one another’s, were no longer our own, individual, discrete.
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From the beginning men used God to justify the unjustifiable.
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What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.
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Until you know who you are you can’t write.
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