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Salman Rushdie

It matters, it always matters, to name rubbish as rubbish; that to do otherwise is to legitimize it.
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Legal Name
What’s real and what’s true aren’t necessarily the same.
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Home Necessary Reality True
Our lives, our stories, flowed into one another’s, were no longer our own, individual, discrete.
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Live Ourselves 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
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
Between the adored and the adorer falls the shadow.
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Admire Fall Fame Shadow
My horizon’s have shrunk and I have only endings to write.
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End Limitation Myself Restriction Write
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
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
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
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
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
Faith without doubt is addiction.
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Addiction Doubt Faith
We cannot allow religious hooligans to place limiting points on thought.
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Limitation Place Religious Thinking
Reality is a question of perspective.
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Deep One Liner Perspective Question Reality
The world, somebody wrote, is the place we prove real by dying in it.
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Death Place Reality World

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