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Salman Rushdie

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
My horizon’s have shrunk and I have only endings to write.
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End Limitation Myself Restriction Write
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
Our lives, our stories, flowed into one another’s, were no longer our own, individual, discrete.
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Live Ourselves Story
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Blood Head Hide Mask
I have never really thought of myself as a writer about religion. And I think one of the things that happened to me as a result of all that is that I think it did for some people, many people, obscure the kind of writer that I actually am.
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Community Myself People Religious Result Writing
Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself.
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Freedom Game Life Talk
Religion, a mediaeval form of unreason, when combined with modern weaponry becomes a real threat to our freedoms. This religious totalitarianism has caused a deadly mutation in the heart of Islam and we see the tragic consequences in Paris today.
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Combination Freedom Heart Reason Religion Threat Tragedy
Reality is a question of perspective.
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Deep One Liner Perspective Question Reality
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
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
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
We cannot allow religious hooligans to place limiting points on thought.
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Limitation Place Religious Thinking
We have come to think of taking offence as a fundamental right. We value very little more highly than our rage, which gives us, in our opinion, the moral high ground. From there we can shoot down at our enemies and inflict heavy fatalities.
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Enemy Fundamental heavy Offense Opinion Ourselves Thinking
Faith without doubt is addiction.
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Addiction Doubt Faith
I didn’t become a writer to write about me.
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Myself Writing

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