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Where there is no belief, there is no blasphemy.

Salman Rushdie

One of the things a writer is for is to say the unsayable, speak the unspeakable and ask difficult questions.
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Difficult Question Stay Talk Writing
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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Dreams Evil Fantasy Goodness Greatness Home Journey Man
In the waking dreams our societies permit, in our myths, our arts, our songs, we celebrate the nonbelongers, the different ones, the outlaws, the freaks.
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Art Celebration Different Dreams Law Mythology Society Song Wake Up
How do you defeat terrorism? Don’t be terrorized.
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Deep Defeat Fear Terrorism Yourself
So India’s problem turns out to be the world’s problem. What happened in India has happened in God’s name. The problem’s name is God.
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God Name Problem Religious World
Where there is no belief, there is no blasphemy.
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Belief One Liner
When a reader falls in love with a book, it leaves its essence inside him, like radioactive fallout in an arable field, and after that there are certain crops that will no longer grow in him, while other, stranger, more fantastic growths may occasionally be produced.
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Book Essence Fall In Love Growth Leaving Production Reading Strange
People can do bad things with free speech as well as good. You have to defend the Ku Klux Klan as well as Martin Luther King. It’s like that. If you’re going to defend the principle, then you have to defend people who use the principle badly.
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Bad Defense Freedom People Principle Yourself
To understand just one life you have to swallow the world do you wonder, then, that I was a heavy child?
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Children heavy Life Understand World
I have always thought that these two ways of talking, one is the fantastic, the fable, the fairy tale, and the other being history, the scholarly study of what happened, I think they’re both amazing ways to understand human nature.
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Fairy Tale Fantasy Human Myself Talk Thinking Understand Way
Faith without doubt is addiction.
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Addiction Doubt Faith
In the cookie of life, friends are the chocolate chips.
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Chocolate Friendship Life
Even when things are at their worst, there’s a little voice in your head saying, ‘Good story!’
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Goodness Head Story Voice Worst
I didn’t become a writer to write about me.
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Myself Writing
Only the foolish, blinded by language’s conventions, think of fire as red or gold. Fire is blue at it’s melancholy rim, green in it’s envious heart. It may burn white, or even, in it’s greatest rages, black.
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Black Blind Fire Fools Gold Language Thinking
My horizon’s have shrunk and I have only endings to write.
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End Limitation Myself Restriction Write

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