In India, as elsewhere in our darkening world, religion is the poison in the blood. Where religion intervenes, mere innocence is no excuse. Yet we go on skating around this issue, speaking of religion in the fashionable language of 'respect.' What is there to respect in any of this, or in any of the crimes now being committed almost daily around the world in religion's dreaded name?More Salman Rushdie quotes [03/29/2018 05:03:36]
The moment you declare a set of ideas to be immune from criticism, satire, derision, or contempt, freedom of thought becomes impossible.More Salman Rushdie quotes [03/29/2018 05:03:36]
Not even the visionary or mystical experience ever lasts very long. It is for art to capture that experience, to offer it to, in the case of literature, its readers; to be, for a secular, materialist culture, some sort of replacement for what the love of god offers in the world of faith.More Salman Rushdie quotes [03/29/2018 05:03:36]
One of the extraordinary things about human events is that the unthinkable becomes thinkable.More Salman Rushdie quotes [03/29/2018 05:03:36]
I became a writer because I got addicted to story. The first storyteller in my life was my father.More Salman Rushdie quotes [03/29/2018 05:03:36]
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