The lessons one learns at school are not always the ones the school thinks it’s teaching.
SALMAN RUSHDIEHe knew what he knew: that the real world was full of magic, so magical worlds could easily be real.
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Between the adored and the adorer falls the shadow.
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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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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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We cannot allow religious hooligans to place limiting points on thought.
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It is very, very easy not to be offended by a book. You just have to shut it.
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I stand with Charlie Hebdo, as we all must, to defend the art of satire.
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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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Ignorantly is how we all fall in love; for it is a kind of fall. Closing our eyes, we leap from that cliff in hope of a soft landing. Nor is it always soft; but still, without that leap nobody comes to life.
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I have never really thought of myself as a writer about religion. And I think one of the things that happened to me as a result of all that is that I think it did for some people, many people, obscure the kind of writer that I actually am.
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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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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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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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Our lives, our stories, flowed into one another’s, were no longer our own, individual, discrete.
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Masks beneath masks until suddenly the bare bloodless skull.
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Every 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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