If somebody’s trying to shut you up, sing louder, and if possible, better.
SALMAN RUSHDIERespect 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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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 were language’s magpies by nature, stealing whatever sounded bright and shiny.
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Where there is no belief, there is no blasphemy.
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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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From the beginning men used God to justify the unjustifiable.
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I didn’t become a writer to write about me.
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I don’t dictate to anyone what to believe and what not to. And I don’t want that to be dictated to me either.
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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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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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What one writer can make in the solitude of one room is something no power can easily destroy.
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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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Even when things are at their worst, there’s a little voice in your head saying, ‘Good story!’
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For every snake, there is a ladder; for every ladder, a snake.
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My horizon’s have shrunk and I have only endings to write.
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It matters, it always matters, to name rubbish as rubbish; that to do otherwise is to legitimize it.
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