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The idea of the sacred is quite simply one of the most conservative notions in any culture, because it seeks to turn other ideas—uncertainty, progress, change—into crimes.

Salman Rushdie

Salman Rushdie (b. 1947), Indian–born British author. Herbert Read Memorial Lecture, Feb. 6, 1990, ICA, London. Is Nothing Sacred? (1990).

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