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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

We all owe death a life.
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Death Life One Liner
In the cookie of life, friends are the chocolate chips.
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Chocolate Friendship Life
We are the storytelling animal.
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Animal Story Talk
The lessons one learns at school are not always the ones the school thinks it’s teaching.
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Education Learning Lesson Oneself Teaching Thinking
Reality is a question of perspective.
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Deep One Liner Perspective Question Reality
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
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
Stories in families are colossally important. Every family has stories: some funny, some proud, some embarrassing, some shameful. Knowing them is proof of belonging to the family.
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Evidence Family Funny Important Shame Story
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
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
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
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
Even when things are at their worst, there’s a little voice in your head saying, ‘Good story!’
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Goodness Head Story Voice Worst
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
Friendships are the family we make – not the one we inherit. I’ve always been someone to whom friendship, elective affinities, is as important as family.
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Family Friendship Important Inheritance Myself
What’s real and what’s true aren’t necessarily the same.
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Home Necessary Reality True

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