Quote by Salman Rushdie
The only way of living in a free society is to feel that you have

The only way of living in a free society is to feel that you have the right to say and do stuff. – Salman Rushdie

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I was 21 in 1968, so Im as much a child of the 60s as is possible to be. In those years the subject of religion had really almost disappeared the idea that religion was going to be a major force in the life of our societies, in the West anyway, would have seemed absurd in 1968. – Salman Rushdie

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Religion
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A poets 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

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Poetry
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What one writer can make in the solitude of one room is something no power can easily destroy. – Salman Rushdie

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power
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All literary men are Red Sox fans – to be a Yankee fan in a literate society is to endanger your life. – John Cheever

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Society

You forget that you do choose your life and there are so many things to be grateful for and I feel like society has gotten to that point where were always looking for the next and the better and we lose sight of whats actually in front of us. – Shailene Woodley

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Society

He has the obligation to society that any human being has. I dont think a satirist has any greater obligation to society than a bricklayer or anybody else. – Shel Silverstein

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Society

Its very hard to imagine the phrase consumer society used so cheerfully, and interpreted so enthusiastically, in England. – Julie Burchill

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Society

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I have cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society in which all persons live together in harmony and with equal opportunities. – Nelson Mandela

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That which is so universal as death must be a benefit. – Friedrich Schiller

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Death

In this business it takes time to be really good – and by that time, youre obsolete. – Cher

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Business

The old fun thing is when somebody typed up the first chapter of War and Peace. And then made a precis of the rest of it and sent it out and only one publisher recognized it. – Jim Harrison

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Peace