"If I were asked for a one-sentence sound bite on religion, I would say I was against it."
-Salman Rushdie
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"The idea of the sacred is quite simply one of the most conservative notions in any culture, because it seeks to turn other ideas - uncertainty, progress, change - into crimes.“
-Salman Rushdie
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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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"Throughout human history, the apostles of purity, those who have claimed to possess a total explanation, have wrought havoc among mere mixed-up human beings."
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"Rock and roll music - the music of freedom frightens people and unleashes all manner of conservative defense mechanisms."
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"Vertigo is the conflict between the fear of falling and the desire to fall."
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"What distinguishes a great artist from a weak one is first their sensibility and tenderness second, their imagination, and third, their industry."
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"You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward what happens to you, and in that, you will be mastering change rather than allowing it to master you."
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"I never want to change so much that people can't recognize me."
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"Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral laws are written on the table of eternity."
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