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He knew what he knew: that the real world was full of magic, so magical worlds could easily be real.

Salman Rushdie

Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself.
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Freedom Game Life Talk
Faith without doubt is addiction.
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Addiction Doubt Faith
My horizon’s have shrunk and I have only endings to write.
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End Limitation Myself Restriction Write
The only people who see the whole picture,’ he murmured, ‘are the ones who step out of the frame.
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Deep Frame People Photograph Thinking Wisdom
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
The world, somebody wrote, is the place we prove real by dying in it.
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Death Place Reality World
What’s real and what’s true aren’t necessarily the same.
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Home Necessary Reality True
The moment you declare a set of ideas to be immune from criticism, satire, derision, or contempt, freedom of thought becomes impossible.
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Criticism Freedom Ideas Impossible Moments Thinking
You can’t have modern states based on ideas which have been out of date for a thousand years.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
Until you know who you are you can’t write.
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Writing Yourself
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
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
It matters, it always matters, to name rubbish as rubbish; that to do otherwise is to legitimize it.
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Legal Name
I think if we wish to live in any kind of a moral universe, we must hold the perpetrators of violence responsible for the violence they perpetrate. It’s very simple. The criminal is responsible for the crime.
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Crime Kind Moral Responsible Simplicity Thinking Universe Violence
Perhaps the story you finish is never the one you begin.
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Beginning End Story Yourself
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

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