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Even when things are at their worst, there’s a little voice in your head saying, ‘Good story!’

Salman Rushdie

You can’t have modern states based on ideas which have been out of date for a thousand years.
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Ideas Modern Old Time Yourself
In the cookie of life, friends are the chocolate chips.
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Chocolate Friendship Life
What I do think is evident is that those countries in the world where Islamic extremism has recovered the most power, those are also the countries which are most disliked.
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Country Evidence Hate Power Recover Thinking World
Literature is the one place in any society where, within the secrecy of our own heads, we can hear voices talking about everything in every possible way.
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Head Literature Place Possible Secret Society Talk Voice Way
From the beginning men used God to justify the unjustifiable.
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Beginning God Justice Man People
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
He knew what he knew: that the real world was full of magic, so magical worlds could easily be real.
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Himself Magic Reality World
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
I write books I’d enjoy reading, I’m the reader standing behind my shoulder.
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Book Myself Reading Writing
Faith without doubt is addiction.
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Addiction Doubt Faith
What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.
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Existence Expression Freedom Offense
I admit it: above all things, I fear absurdity.
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Fear Mad Myself Weird
Religion is responsible for a lot of the problems in the history of the world and it’s not something that I practice or recommend, but to each his own.
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History Kind Man Problem Religion Responsible
Reality is a question of perspective.
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Deep One Liner Perspective Question Reality
If you’re offended, it’s your problem.
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Offense Problem Yourself
I don’t dictate to anyone what to believe and what not to. And I don’t want that to be dictated to me either.
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Believe Direction Myself

Even when things are at their worst, there’s a little voice in your head saying, ‘Good story!’

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