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I stand with Charlie Hebdo, as we all must, to defend the art of satire.
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I used to say: ''there is a God-shaped hole in me.'' For a long time I stressed the absence, the hole. Now I find it is the shape which has become more important.
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If somebody's trying to shut you up, sing louder, and if possible, better.
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If the creative artist worries if he will still be free tomorrow, then he will not be free today.
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If you want to tell the untold stories, if you want to give voice to the voiceless, you've got to find a language. Which goes for film as well as prose, for documentary as well as autobiography. Use the wrong language, and you're dumb and blind.
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In this world without quiet corners, there can be no easy escapes from history, from hullabaloo, from terrible, unquiet fuss.
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India’s problem turns out to be the world’s problem. What happened in India has happened in God’s name. The problem’s name is God.
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It is literature which for me opened the mysterious and decisive doors of imagination and understanding. To see the way others see. To think the way others think. And above all, to feel.
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It is often said by religious people that without its framework, there is no sense of right or wrong. My view is that religion comes after ethics.
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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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It seems that the right of freedom of speech that was enshrined in numerous constitutions is now under attack by religious institutions.
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It's Kennedy's war, Vietnam. Lyndon Johnson got all the flak, but it's Kennedy's war.
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Language is courage: the ability to conceive a thought, to speak it, and by doing so to make it true.
The Satanic Verses -
Liberate yourself, because no one else is going to liberate you.
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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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Names, once they are in common use, quickly become mere sounds, their etymology being buried, like so many of the earth's marvels, beneath the dust of habit.
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No, I don't think it's fair to label Islam 'violent.' But I will say that to my knowledge, no writer has ever gone into hiding for criticizing the Amish.
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