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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

Of course, there is nothing intrinsic linking any religion with any act of violence. The crusades don’t prove that Christianity was violent. The Inquisition doesn’t prove that Christianity tortures people. But that Christianity did torture people.
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Act Link People Religion Terrorism Torture Violence
From the beginning men used God to justify the unjustifiable.
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Beginning God Justice Man People
A poet’s work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it going to sleep.
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Fake Mistake Name Poet Sleep Stop Work World
No, I don’t think it’s fair to label Islam ‘violent.’ But I will say that to my knowledge, no writer has ever gone into hiding for criticizing the Amish.
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Criticism Hide Knowledge Thinking Violence Writing
I didn’t become a writer to write about me.
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Myself Writing
Self-censorship is a lie to yourself; if you are going to be trying to seriously create art, to create literary art, and you decide to hold back, to censor yourself, then you are a fool to yourself and it would be better that you kept your mouth shut and did not speak.
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Decision Lying Serious Talk Try
I don’t dictate to anyone what to believe and what not to. And I don’t want that to be dictated to me either.
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Believe Direction Myself
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
We all owe death a life.
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Death Life One Liner
The world, somebody wrote, is the place we prove real by dying in it.
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Death Place Reality World
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
One of the things a writer is for is to say the unsayable, speak the unspeakable and ask difficult questions.
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Difficult Question Stay Talk Writing
Free speech is not just free speech for people you admire. It’s also for people who you think of as reprehensible.
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Freedom People Talk Thinking Voice
Masks beneath masks until suddenly the bare bloodless skull.
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Blood Head Hide Mask
I stand with Charlie Hebdo, as we all must, to defend the art of satire.
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Art Defense Myself Poem Stand Support
So India’s problem turns out to be the world’s problem. What happened in India has happened in God’s name. The problem’s name is God.
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God Name Problem Religious World

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