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Science fiction is always a vehicle for ideas. It’s the form which allows either movies or books to be an exploration of how we should live.

Salman Rushdie

One of the strange things about violent and authoritarian regimes is they don’t like the glare of negative publicity.
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Negative Public Strange Violence
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
We are the storytelling animal.
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Animal Story Talk
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
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
But there’s one thing we must all be clear about: terrorism is not the pursuit of legitimate goals by some sort of illegitimate means. Whatever the murderers may be trying to achieve, creating a better world certainly isn’t one of their goals. Instead they are out to murder innocent people.
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Achievement Creation Goal Innocence Legal Murder People Pursuit Terrorism
If you actually want to change your world, there is a better way of doing it than blowing yourself up.
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Better Change Way World Yourself
We were language’s magpies by nature, stealing whatever sounded bright and shiny.
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Bright Language Shine Sound Steal Theft
Too many people spouting too many words, and in the end those words will turn to bullets and stones.
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End People Weapon Word
Masks beneath masks until suddenly the bare bloodless skull.
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Blood Head Hide Mask
I’ve been worrying about God a little bit lately. It seems like he’s been in a bad mood. And I think it has to do with the quality of lovers he’s been getting.
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Bad God Himself Lover Mood Quality Worry
Faith without doubt is addiction.
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Addiction Doubt Faith
Every time you finish a book, you have a terrible feeling that there’s just never going to be another one. But fortunately, so far, the next one has always shown up.
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Book Fortunate Terrible Time Yourself
Once you put a thought into the world, it can be disagreed with, but it can’t be unthought.
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Thinking World Yourself
If you’re offended, it’s your problem.
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Offense Problem Yourself
What kind of Christmas present would Jesus ask Santa for?
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Funny Kind Present

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