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Salman Rushdie

"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 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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"Your moral foundation and character currently depend on what you hear."

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"Morality exists in the neurons as a natural sensation. Religion only tries to codify it."

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"Ethics are the things that say, 'Don't stick your finger in the socket.' The world says, 'It's okay because we've shut off the electricity.' And at the point that we've chosen to listen to the world and ignore our ethics, we say, 'I'm having a really hard time getting back up."

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"People shouldn't have to earn kindness. They should have to earn cruelty."

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"The Lord does not love wicked people with self-interest and involved in inquity."

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"It is better to have little and be right than to have much and be wrong."

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"The way to procure insults is to submit to them. A man meets with no more respect than he exacts."

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"I've a regard for law, although I do not always agree with it. Without law, man becomes a beast."

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"To deny people of their human rights is to challenge their very humanity."

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"Conquer the angry one by not getting angry; conquer the wicked by goodness; conquer the stingy by generosity, and the liar by speaking the truth."

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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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"Running along the bank was a white rabbit wearing a waistcoat and looking worriedly at a clock. Appearing and disappearing at various points on both banks was a dark blue British police telephone booth, out of which a perplexed-looking man holding a screwdriver would periodically emerge. A group of dwarf bandits could be seen disappearing into a hole in the sky. "Time travelers," said Nobodaddy in a voice of gentle disgust. "They're everywhere these days."
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"I never thought of myself as a writer about religion until a religion came after me."
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"Realism can break a writer's heart."
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"If I were asked for a one-sentence sound bite on religion, I would say I was against it."
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"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 to watching films. For instance, if you wanted to write a flashback in a novel, you once had to really contextualize it a lot, to set it up. Now, readers know exactly what you're doing. Close-ups, too."
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"There is no bitterness like that of man who finds out he has been believing in a ghost."
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"A book is not completed till it's read."
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"Among the great struggles of man-good/evil, reason/unreason, etc.-there is also this mighty conflict between the fantasy of Home and the fantasy of Away, the dream of roots and the mirage of the journey."
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"I do not need the idea of God to explain the world I live in."
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