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Salman Rushdie
“The world, somebody wrote, is the place we prove real by dying in it.”
Salman Rushdie, The Satanic Verses

Salman Rushdie
“A people that has remained convinced of its greatness and invulnerability, that has chosen to believe such a myth in the face of all the evidence, is a people in the grip of a kind of sleep, or madness.”
Salman Rushdie, The Satanic Verses

Aldous Huxley
“It is natural to believe in God when you're alone-- quite alone, in the night, thinking about death.”
Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

Aldous Huxley
“Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth.”
Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

Salman Rushdie
“Question: What is the opposite of faith?

Not disbelief. Too final, certain, closed. Itself is a kind of belief.

Doubt.

The human condition, but what of the angelic? Halfway between Allahgod and homosap, did they ever doubt? They did: challenging God's will one day they hid muttering beneath the Throne, daring to ask forbidden things: antiquestions. Is it right that. Could it not be argued. Freedom, the old antiquest. He calmed them down, naturally, employing management skills a la god. Flattered them: you will be the instruments of my will on earth, the salvationdamnation of man, all the usual etcetera. And hey presto, the end of protest, on with the haloes, back to work. Angels are easily pacified; turn them into instruments and they'll play your harpy tune. Human beings are tougher nuts, can doubt anything, even the evidence of their own eyes. Of behing-their-own-eyes. Of what, as they sink heavy-lidded, transpires behind closed peepers ... angels, they don't have much in the way of a will. To will is to disagree; not to submit; to dissent.”
Salman Rushdie, The Satanic Verses

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