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Free speech is not just free speech for people you admire. It’s also for people who you think of as reprehensible.

Salman Rushdie

I didn’t become a writer to write about me.
SALMAN RUSHDIE

Myself Writing
I have never really thought of myself as a writer about religion. And I think one of the things that happened to me as a result of all that is that I think it did for some people, many people, obscure the kind of writer that I actually am.
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Community Myself People Religious Result Writing
You can’t have modern states based on ideas which have been out of date for a thousand years.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
Free speech is not just free speech for people you admire. It’s also for people who you think of as reprehensible.
SALMAN RUSHDIE

Freedom People Talk Thinking Voice
From the beginning men used God to justify the unjustifiable.
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Beginning God Justice Man People
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
Only the foolish, blinded by language’s conventions, think of fire as red or gold. Fire is blue at it’s melancholy rim, green in it’s envious heart. It may burn white, or even, in it’s greatest rages, black.
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Black Blind Fire Fools Gold Language Thinking
My horizon’s have shrunk and I have only endings to write.
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End Limitation Myself Restriction Write
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
We all owe death a life.
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Death Life One Liner
Until you know who you are you can’t write.
SALMAN RUSHDIE

Writing Yourself
If somebody’s trying to shut you up, sing louder, and if possible, better.
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Better Loud Possible Sing Try Yourself
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
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
What kind of Christmas present would Jesus ask Santa for?
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Funny Kind Present

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