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Salman Rushdie

Stories in families are colossally important. Every family has stories: some funny, some proud, some embarrassing, some shameful. Knowing them is proof of belonging to the family.
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Evidence Family Funny Important Shame Story
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
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
We were language’s magpies by nature, stealing whatever sounded bright and shiny.
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Bright Language Shine Sound Steal Theft
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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Country Expression Freedom Law Rule Society
I admit it: above all things, I fear absurdity.
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Fear Mad Myself Weird
You can’t have modern states based on ideas which have been out of date for a thousand years.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
We cannot allow religious hooligans to place limiting points on thought.
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Limitation Place Religious Thinking
If you’re offended, it’s your problem.
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Offense Problem Yourself
I think if we wish to live in any kind of a moral universe, we must hold the perpetrators of violence responsible for the violence they perpetrate. It’s very simple. The criminal is responsible for the crime.
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Crime Kind Moral Responsible Simplicity Thinking Universe Violence
From the beginning men used God to justify the unjustifiable.
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Beginning God Justice Man People
My horizon’s have shrunk and I have only endings to write.
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End Limitation Myself Restriction Write
Reality is a question of perspective.
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Deep One Liner Perspective Question Reality
Where there is no belief, there is no blasphemy.
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Belief One Liner
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
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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Achievement Creation Goal Innocence Legal Murder People Pursuit Terrorism

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