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It is very, very easy not to be offended by a book. You just have to shut it.

Salman Rushdie

Friendships are the family we make – not the one we inherit. I’ve always been someone to whom friendship, elective affinities, is as important as family.
SALMAN RUSHDIE

Family Friendship Important Inheritance Myself
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
Science fiction is always a vehicle for ideas. It’s the form which allows either movies or books to be an exploration of how we should live.
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Book Exploration Fiction Ideas Love Movie Science
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
How do you defeat terrorism? Don’t be terrorized.
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Deep Defeat Fear Terrorism Yourself
What’s real and what’s true aren’t necessarily the same.
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Home Necessary Reality True
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
Until you know who you are you can’t write.
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Writing Yourself
From the beginning men used God to justify the unjustifiable.
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Beginning God Justice Man People
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
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
Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself.
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Freedom Game Life Talk
I don’t dictate to anyone what to believe and what not to. And I don’t want that to be dictated to me either.
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Believe Direction Myself
An attack upon our ability to tell stories is not just censorship – it is a crime against our nature as human beings.
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Ability Crime Human Nature Story
Masks beneath masks until suddenly the bare bloodless skull.
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Blood Head Hide Mask
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

It is very, very easy not to be offended by a book. You just have to shut it.

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