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Your blasphemy, Salman, cant be forgiven. To set your words agains

Your blasphemy, Salman, cant be forgiven. To set your words against the Words of God. – Salman Rushdie

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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. – 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. – Salman Rushdie

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I dont think it is given to any of us to be impertinent to great religions with impunity. – John Le Carre

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Where there is no belief, there is no blasphemy. – Salman Rushdie

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Blasphemy

I am very sorry to know and hear how unreverently that most precious jewel, the Word of God, is disputed, rhymed, sung and jangled in every ale-house and tavern, contrary to the true meaning and doctrine of the same. – Edward VIII

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There is only one blasphemy, and that is the refusal to experience joy. – Paul Rudnick

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