To understand just one life you have to swallow the world do you wonder, then, that I was a heavy child?
SALMAN RUSHDIEWhat one writer can make in the solitude of one room is something no power can easily destroy.
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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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A poet’s work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it going to sleep.
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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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I stand with Charlie Hebdo, as we all must, to defend the art of satire.
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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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Free speech is not just free speech for people you admire. It’s also for people who you think of as reprehensible.
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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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How do you defeat terrorism? Don’t be terrorized.
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We cannot allow religious hooligans to place limiting points on thought.
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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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For every snake, there is a ladder; for every ladder, a snake.
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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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You can’t have modern states based on ideas which have been out of date for a thousand years.
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The world, somebody wrote, is the place we prove real by dying in it.
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It is very, very easy not to be offended by a book. You just have to shut it.
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