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Reality is a question of perspective.

Salman Rushdie

What one writer can make in the solitude of one room is something no power can easily destroy.
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Destroy Easy Oneself Power Room Solitude Writing
We were language’s magpies by nature, stealing whatever sounded bright and shiny.
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Bright Language Shine Sound Steal Theft
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
Something was badly amiss with the spiritual life of the planet, Too many demons inside people claiming to believe in God.
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Bad Believe Demon God Life People Spiritual
Reality is a question of perspective.
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Deep One Liner Perspective Question Reality
The world, somebody wrote, is the place we prove real by dying in it.
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Death Place Reality World
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
What kind of Christmas present would Jesus ask Santa for?
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Funny Kind Present
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
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
You can find shame in every house, burning in an ashtray, hanging framed upon a wall, covering a bed. But nobody notices it any more.
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Bed Frame Hang Home Notice Shame Wall
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
What’s real and what’s true aren’t necessarily the same.
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Home Necessary Reality True
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
How do you defeat terrorism? Don’t be terrorized.
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Deep Defeat Fear Terrorism Yourself

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