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

Salman Rushdie

The only people who see the whole picture,’ he murmured, ‘are the ones who step out of the frame.
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Deep Frame People Photograph Thinking Wisdom
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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I think if we wish to live in any kind of a moral universe, we must hold the perpetrators of violence responsible for the violence they perpetrate. It’s very simple. The criminal is responsible for the crime.
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Crime Kind Moral Responsible Simplicity Thinking Universe Violence
Where there is no belief, there is no blasphemy.
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Belief One Liner
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
It matters, it always matters, to name rubbish as rubbish; that to do otherwise is to legitimize it.
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We were language’s magpies by nature, stealing whatever sounded bright and shiny.
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Bright Language Shine Sound Steal Theft
Only the foolish, blinded by language’s conventions, think of fire as red or gold. Fire is blue at it’s melancholy rim, green in it’s envious heart. It may burn white, or even, in it’s greatest rages, black.
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Black Blind Fire Fools Gold Language Thinking
Masks beneath masks until suddenly the bare bloodless skull.
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We all owe death a life.
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The world, somebody wrote, is the place we prove real by dying in it.
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It seems that the right of freedom of speech that was enshrined in numerous constitutions is now under attack by religious institutions.
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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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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
Liberate yourself, because no one else is going to liberate you.
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Freedom Liberty Yourself
Between the adored and the adorer falls the shadow.
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Admire Fall Fame Shadow

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