Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself.
SALMAN RUSHDIEFrom the beginning men used God to justify the unjustifiable.
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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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Our lives, our stories, flowed into one another’s, were no longer our own, individual, discrete.
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People can do bad things with free speech as well as good. You have to defend the Ku Klux Klan as well as Martin Luther King. It’s like that. If you’re going to defend the principle, then you have to defend people who use the principle badly.
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Too many people spouting too many words, and in the end those words will turn to bullets and stones.
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Faith without doubt is addiction.
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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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The only people who see the whole picture,’ he murmured, ‘are the ones who step out of the frame.
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Between the adored and the adorer falls the shadow.
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No, I don’t think it’s fair to label Islam ‘violent.’ But I will say that to my knowledge, no writer has ever gone into hiding for criticizing the Amish.
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One of the things a writer is for is to say the unsayable, speak the unspeakable and ask difficult questions.
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We were language’s magpies by nature, stealing whatever sounded bright and shiny.
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He knew what he knew: that the real world was full of magic, so magical worlds could easily be real.
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The world, somebody wrote, is the place we prove real by dying in it.
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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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We are the storytelling animal.
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