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If somebody’s trying to shut you up, sing louder, and if possible, better.

Salman Rushdie

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
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
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
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
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
In the waking dreams our societies permit, in our myths, our arts, our songs, we celebrate the nonbelongers, the different ones, the outlaws, the freaks.
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Art Celebration Different Dreams Law Mythology Society Song Wake Up
Perhaps the story you finish is never the one you begin.
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Beginning End Story Yourself
What kind of Christmas present would Jesus ask Santa for?
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Funny Kind Present
What’s real and what’s true aren’t necessarily the same.
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Home Necessary Reality True
Literature is where I go to explore the highest and lowest places in human society and in the human spirit, where I hope to find not absolute truth but the truth of the tale, of the imagination and of the heart.
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Exploration Heart Human Imagination Literature Place Society Spirit Truth
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
Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself.
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Freedom Game Life Talk
Among the great struggles of man-good/evil, reason/unreason, etc.-there is also this mighty conflict between the fantasy of Home and the fantasy of Away, the dream of roots and the mirage of the journey.
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Dreams Evil Fantasy Goodness Greatness Home Journey Man
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
What one writer can make in the solitude of one room is something no power can easily destroy.
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Destroy Easy Oneself Power Room Solitude Writing

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