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Salman Rushdie

Respect for religion’ has become a code phrase meaning ‘fear of religion.’ Religions, like all other ideas, deserve criticism, satire, and, yes, our fearless disrespect.
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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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The only people who see the whole picture,’ he murmured, ‘are the ones who step out of the frame.
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Religion, a mediaeval form of unreason, when combined with modern weaponry becomes a real threat to our freedoms. This religious totalitarianism has caused a deadly mutation in the heart of Islam and we see the tragic consequences in Paris today.
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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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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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He knew what he knew: that the real world was full of magic, so magical worlds could easily be real.
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But there’s one thing we must all be clear about: terrorism is not the pursuit of legitimate goals by some sort of illegitimate means. Whatever the murderers may be trying to achieve, creating a better world certainly isn’t one of their goals. Instead they are out to murder innocent people.
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In the cookie of life, friends are the chocolate chips.
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Chocolate Friendship Life
Our lives, our stories, flowed into one another’s, were no longer our own, individual, discrete.
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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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The world, somebody wrote, is the place we prove real by dying in it.
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When a reader falls in love with a book, it leaves its essence inside him, like radioactive fallout in an arable field, and after that there are certain crops that will no longer grow in him, while other, stranger, more fantastic growths may occasionally be produced.
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Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself.
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Freedom Game Life Talk
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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