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Once you put a thought into the world, it can be disagreed with, but it can’t be unthought.

Salman Rushdie

In the cookie of life, friends are the chocolate chips.
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Chocolate Friendship Life
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
An attack upon our ability to tell stories is not just censorship – it is a crime against our nature as human beings.
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Ability Crime Human Nature Story
Masks beneath masks until suddenly the bare bloodless skull.
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Blood Head Hide Mask
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
What’s real and what’s true aren’t necessarily the same.
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Home Necessary Reality True
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
Perhaps the story you finish is never the one you begin.
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Beginning End Story Yourself
Where there is no belief, there is no blasphemy.
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Belief One Liner
We are the storytelling animal.
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Animal Story Talk
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 never really thought of myself as a writer about religion. And I think one of the things that happened to me as a result of all that is that I think it did for some people, many people, obscure the kind of writer that I actually am.
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Community Myself People Religious Result Writing
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
Faith without doubt is addiction.
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Addiction Doubt Faith
The only people who see the whole picture,’ he murmured, ‘are the ones who step out of the frame.
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Once you put a thought into the world, it can be disagreed with, but it can’t be unthought.

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