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Something was badly amiss with the spiritual life of the planet, Too many demons inside people claiming to believe in God.

Salman Rushdie

Perhaps the story you finish is never the one you begin.
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Beginning End Story Yourself
Literature is where I go to explore the highest and lowest places in human society and in the human spirit, where I hope to find not absolute truth but the truth of the tale, of the imagination and of the heart.
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Exploration Heart Human Imagination Literature Place Society Spirit Truth
Free speech is not just free speech for people you admire. It’s also for people who you think of as reprehensible.
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Freedom People Talk Thinking Voice
What’s real and what’s true aren’t necessarily the same.
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Home Necessary Reality True
Between the adored and the adorer falls the shadow.
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Admire Fall Fame Shadow
I write books I’d enjoy reading, I’m the reader standing behind my shoulder.
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Book Myself Reading Writing
From the beginning men used God to justify the unjustifiable.
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Beginning God Justice Man People
What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.
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Existence Expression Freedom Offense
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
Of course, there is nothing intrinsic linking any religion with any act of violence. The crusades don’t prove that Christianity was violent. The Inquisition doesn’t prove that Christianity tortures people. But that Christianity did torture people.
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Act Link People Religion Terrorism Torture Violence
If you take a look at history, you will find that the understanding of what is good and evil has always existed before the individual religions. The religions were only invented by people afterwards, in order to express this idea.
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Evil Existence Expression Goodness History Ideas People Understand
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
Those who do not have power over the story that dominates their lives, power to retell it, to rethink it, deconstruct it, joke about it, and change it as times change, truly are powerless, because they cannot think new thoughts.
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Change Domination Live Power Story Thinking Time True
Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself.
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Freedom Game Life Talk
Respect for religion’ has become a code phrase meaning ‘fear of religion.’ Religions, like all other ideas, deserve criticism, satire, and, yes, our fearless disrespect.
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Criticism Deserve Fear Religion Respect
It is very, very easy not to be offended by a book. You just have to shut it.
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Book Easy Yourself

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