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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.

Salman Rushdie

Masks beneath masks until suddenly the bare bloodless skull.
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Blood Head Hide Mask
Two things form the bedrock of any open society – freedom of expression and rule of law. If you don’t have those things, you don’t have a free country.
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Country Expression Freedom Law Rule Society
But there’s one thing we must all be clear about: terrorism is not the pursuit of legitimate goals by some sort of illegitimate means. Whatever the murderers may be trying to achieve, creating a better world certainly isn’t one of their goals. Instead they are out to murder innocent people.
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Achievement Creation Goal Innocence Legal Murder People Pursuit Terrorism
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
How do you defeat terrorism? Don’t be terrorized.
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Deep Defeat Fear Terrorism Yourself
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
Where there is no belief, there is no blasphemy.
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Belief One Liner
I didn’t become a writer to write about me.
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Myself 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
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
We cannot allow religious hooligans to place limiting points on thought.
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Limitation Place Religious Thinking
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
Until you know who you are you can’t write.
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Writing Yourself
My horizon’s have shrunk and I have only endings to write.
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End Limitation Myself Restriction Write
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
He knew what he knew: that the real world was full of magic, so magical worlds could easily be real.
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Himself Magic Reality World

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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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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