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.
SALMAN RUSHDIEEvery time you finish a book, you have a terrible feeling that there’s just never going to be another one. But fortunately, so far, the next one has always shown up.
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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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Among the great struggles of man-good/evil, reason/unreason, etc.-there is also this mighty conflict between the fantasy of Home and the fantasy of Away, the dream of roots and the mirage of the journey.
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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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I stand with Charlie Hebdo, as we all must, to defend the art of satire.
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Where there is no belief, there is no blasphemy.
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Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself.
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What one writer can make in the solitude of one room is something no power can easily destroy.
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Liberate yourself, because no one else is going to liberate you.
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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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Perhaps the story you finish is never the one you begin.
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We have come to think of taking offence as a fundamental right. We value very little more highly than our rage, which gives us, in our opinion, the moral high ground. From there we can shoot down at our enemies and inflict heavy fatalities.
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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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One of the strange things about violent and authoritarian regimes is they don’t like the glare of negative publicity.
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We are the storytelling animal.
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We cannot allow religious hooligans to place limiting points on thought.
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