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The world, somebody wrote, is the place we prove real by dying in it.

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
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
Every time you finish a book, you have a terrible feeling that there’s just never going to be another one. But fortunately, so far, the next one has always shown up.
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Book Fortunate Terrible Time Yourself
Faith without doubt is addiction.
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Addiction Doubt Faith
What’s real and what’s true aren’t necessarily the same.
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Home Necessary Reality True
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
For every snake, there is a ladder; for every ladder, a snake.
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Advice Game Ladder Life Snake
Perhaps the story you finish is never the one you begin.
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Beginning End Story Yourself
What I do think is evident is that those countries in the world where Islamic extremism has recovered the most power, those are also the countries which are most disliked.
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Country Evidence Hate Power Recover Thinking World
I write books I’d enjoy reading, I’m the reader standing behind my shoulder.
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Book Myself Reading Writing
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
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
We cannot allow religious hooligans to place limiting points on thought.
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Limitation Place Religious Thinking
From the beginning men used God to justify the unjustifiable.
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Beginning God Justice Man People
What kind of Christmas present would Jesus ask Santa for?
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Funny Kind Present
We all owe death a life.
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Death Life One Liner

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