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Something was badly amiss with the spiritual life of the planet, Too many demons inside people claiming to believe in God.

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
My horizon’s have shrunk and I have only endings to write.
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End Limitation Myself Restriction Write
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
Our lives, our stories, flowed into one another’s, were no longer our own, individual, discrete.
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Live Ourselves Story
Religion is responsible for a lot of the problems in the history of the world and it’s not something that I practice or recommend, but to each his own.
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History Kind Man Problem Religion Responsible
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
People can do bad things with free speech as well as good. You have to defend the Ku Klux Klan as well as Martin Luther King. It’s like that. If you’re going to defend the principle, then you have to defend people who use the principle badly.
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Bad Defense Freedom People Principle Yourself
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
The world, somebody wrote, is the place we prove real by dying in it.
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Death Place Reality World
Where there is no belief, there is no blasphemy.
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Belief One Liner
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’s real and what’s true aren’t necessarily the same.
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Home Necessary Reality True
Liberate yourself, because no one else is going to liberate you.
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Freedom Liberty Yourself
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
We are the storytelling animal.
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Animal Story Talk
I write books I’d enjoy reading, I’m the reader standing behind my shoulder.
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Book Myself Reading Writing

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