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Until you know who you are you can’t write.

Salman Rushdie

Too many people spouting too many words, and in the end those words will turn to bullets and stones.
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End People Weapon Word
I didn’t become a writer to write about me.
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Myself Writing
The lessons one learns at school are not always the ones the school thinks it’s teaching.
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Education Learning Lesson Oneself Teaching Thinking
If you’re offended, it’s your problem.
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Offense Problem Yourself
Where there is no belief, there is no blasphemy.
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Belief One Liner
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
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
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
Perhaps the story you finish is never the one you begin.
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Beginning End Story Yourself
Faith without doubt is addiction.
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Addiction Doubt Faith
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 admit it: above all things, I fear absurdity.
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Fear Mad Myself Weird
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
So India’s problem turns out to be the world’s problem. What happened in India has happened in God’s name. The problem’s name is God.
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God Name Problem Religious World
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
Our lives, our stories, flowed into one another’s, were no longer our own, individual, discrete.
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Live Ourselves Story

Until you know who you are you can’t write.

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