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We were language’s magpies by nature, stealing whatever sounded bright and shiny.

Salman Rushdie

We were language’s magpies by nature, stealing whatever sounded bright and shiny.
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Bright Language Shine Sound Steal Theft
What’s real and what’s true aren’t necessarily the same.
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Home Necessary Reality True
Ignorantly is how we all fall in love; for it is a kind of fall. Closing our eyes, we leap from that cliff in hope of a soft landing. Nor is it always soft; but still, without that leap nobody comes to life.
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Eyes Fall In Love Hope Ignorance Kind Life Soft
My horizon’s have shrunk and I have only endings to write.
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End Limitation Myself Restriction Write
If somebody’s trying to shut you up, sing louder, and if possible, better.
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Better Loud Possible Sing Try Yourself
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
Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself.
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Freedom Game Life 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
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
Science fiction is always a vehicle for ideas. It’s the form which allows either movies or books to be an exploration of how we should live.
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Book Exploration Fiction Ideas Love Movie Science
Until you know who you are you can’t write.
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Writing Yourself
Between the adored and the adorer falls the shadow.
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Admire Fall Fame Shadow
We all owe death a life.
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Death Life One Liner
It seems that the right of freedom of speech that was enshrined in numerous constitutions is now under attack by religious institutions.
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Constitution Freedom Religious Right Talk
For every snake, there is a ladder; for every ladder, a snake.
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Advice Game Ladder Life Snake
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
Reality is a question of perspective.
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Deep One Liner Perspective Question Reality
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
What kind of Christmas present would Jesus ask Santa for?
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Funny Kind Present
Language is courage: the ability to conceive a thought, to speak it, and by doing so to make it true.
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Ability Courage Language Talk Thinking True
Liberate yourself, because no one else is going to liberate you.
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Freedom Liberty Yourself
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
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
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
If you take a look at history, you will find that the understanding of what is good and evil has always existed before the individual religions. The religions were only invented by people afterwards, in order to express this idea.
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Evil Existence Expression Goodness History Ideas People Understand
I have always thought that these two ways of talking, one is the fantastic, the fable, the fairy tale, and the other being history, the scholarly study of what happened, I think they’re both amazing ways to understand human nature.
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Fairy Tale Fantasy Human Myself Talk Thinking Understand Way
Too many people spouting too many words, and in the end those words will turn to bullets and stones.
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End People Weapon Word

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