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Salman Rushdie

Religion is responsible for a lot of the problems in the history of the world and it’s not something that I practice or recommend, but to each his own.
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History Kind Man Problem Religion Responsible
Reality is a question of perspective.
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Deep One Liner Perspective Question Reality
Even when things are at their worst, there’s a little voice in your head saying, ‘Good story!’
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Goodness Head Story Voice Worst
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
Where there is no belief, there is no blasphemy.
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Belief One Liner
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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Head Literature Place Possible Secret Society Talk Voice Way
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
Faith without doubt is addiction.
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Addiction Doubt Faith
What’s real and what’s true aren’t necessarily the same.
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Home Necessary Reality True
Those who do not have power over the story that dominates their lives, power to retell it, to rethink it, deconstruct it, joke about it, and change it as times change, truly are powerless, because they cannot think new thoughts.
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Change Domination Live Power Story Thinking Time True
It is very, very easy not to be offended by a book. You just have to shut it.
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Book Easy Yourself
Friendships are the family we make – not the one we inherit. I’ve always been someone to whom friendship, elective affinities, is as important as family.
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Family Friendship Important Inheritance Myself
Between the adored and the adorer falls the shadow.
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Admire Fall Fame Shadow
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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Fairy Tale Fantasy Human Myself Talk Thinking Understand Way
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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Bad Defense Freedom People Principle Yourself
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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Freedom People Talk Thinking Voice

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