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Writers and Writing
Salman Rushdie
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Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself.
Freedom of Speech
Salman Rushdie
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If Woody Allen were a Muslim, he'd be dead by now.
Intolerance
Salman Rushdie
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One of the extraordinary things about human events is that the unthinkable becomes thinkable.
Events
Salman Rushdie
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Our lives teach us who we are.
Self-knowledge
Salman Rushdie
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Sometimes legends make reality, and become more useful than the facts.
Myth
Salman Rushdie
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When thought becomes excessively painful, action is the finest remedy.
Thoughts and Thinking
Salman Rushdie
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Where there is no belief, there is no blasphemy.
Blasphemy
Salman Rushdie
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Whores and writers, Mahound. We are the people you can't forgive.
Writers and Writing
Salman Rushdie
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Your blasphemy, Salman, can't be forgiven. To set your words against the Words of God.
Blasphemy
Salman Rushdie
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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun