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- The moment you declare a set of ideas to be immune from criticism, satire, derision, or contempt, freedom of thought becomes impossible.
- He would dream of discovering a magic optometrist from whom he would purchase a pair of green-tinged spectacles which would correct his regrettable myopia, and…
- I make no complaint. I am a writer. I do not accept my condition; I will strive to change it; but I inhabit it, I…
- What distinguishes a great artist from a weak one is first their sensibility and tenderness; second, their imagination, and third, their industry.
- The acceptance that all that is solid has melted into the air, that reality and morality are not givens but imperfect human constructs, is the…
- I am on Facebook, but mainly as a way to spy on my children. I find out more about them from their Facebook pages than…
- I think the veil is a way of taking power away from women.
- I've never rejected the world I came from. To be rejected by it is horrible.
- In this world without quiet corners, there can be no easy escapes from history, from hullabaloo, from terrible, unquiet fuss.
- The Muslim population in India is, largely speaking, not radicalised. From the beginning, they were always very secular-minded.
- The only thing worse than a bad review from the Ayatollah Khomeini would be a good review from the Ayatollah Khomeini.
- The people suffering most from the Taliban were Afghans.
- In the '50s, listening to Elvis and others on the radio in Bombay - it didn't feel alien. Noises made by a truck driver from…
- As a writer, one of the things we all learned from the movies was a kind of compression that didn't exist before people were used…
- Human beings, you see, do absolutely two primary things. We see like and unlike. Like becomes, in literature, simile and metaphor. Unlike becomes uniqueness and…
- I do think there was a period there when my sanity was under intense pressure, and I didn't know what to say or do or…
- I have had many more close women friends than men, and I've always assumed that comes from the fact that in my family there was…
- I would argue that religion comes from a desire to get to the questions of, 'Where do we come from?' and 'How shall we live?'…
- I've been fascinated by Machiavelli since I was very young. I've always felt that he had a bad rap from history, and that he was…
- In writing 'The Satanic Verses,' I think I was writing for the first time from the whole of myself. The English part, the Indian part.…
- People must be protected from prejudice against their person. But people cannot be protected from prejudice against their ideas - because otherwise we're all done.
- The Koran was revealed at a time of great change in the Arab world, the seventh-century shift from a matriarchal nomadic culture to an urban…
- The thing I really like about Twitter is the speed with which information reaches me. You find out things from Twitter long before they're on…
- The thing that always attracted me to New York was the sense of being in a place where a lot of people had a lot…
- This is going to make me sound ancient, but I remember Juhu Beach when there weren't any buildings on it. You'd go through countryside and…
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