What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.
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Your blasphemy, Salman, can't be forgiven. To set your words against the Words of God.Salman Rushdie
We must conclude that it is not only a particular political ideology that has failed, but the idea that men and women could ever define themselves in terms that exclude their spiritual needs.
Salman Rushdie
A poet's work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it going to sleep.
Salman Rushdie
Such is the miraculous nature of the future of exiles: what is first uttered in the impotence of an overheated apartment becomes the fate of nations.
Salman Rushdie
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 am trying to learn from it.
Salman Rushdie
Whores and writers, Mahound. We are the people you can't forgive.
Salman Rushdie
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