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I admit it: above all things, I fear absurdity.

Salman Rushdie

Self-censorship is a lie to yourself; if you are going to be trying to seriously create art, to create literary art, and you decide to hold back, to censor yourself, then you are a fool to yourself and it would be better that you kept your mouth shut and did not speak.
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I admit it: above all things, I fear absurdity.
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What I do think is evident is that those countries in the world where Islamic extremism has recovered the most power, those are also the countries which are most disliked.
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We all owe death a life.
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Between the adored and the adorer falls the shadow.
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Admire Fall Fame Shadow
From the beginning men used God to justify the unjustifiable.
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Beginning God Justice Man People
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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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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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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In the cookie of life, friends are the chocolate chips.
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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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The only people who see the whole picture,’ he murmured, ‘are the ones who step out of the frame.
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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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Once you put a thought into the world, it can be disagreed with, but it can’t be unthought.
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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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I stand with Charlie Hebdo, as we all must, to defend the art of satire.
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