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

Salman Rushdie

You can’t have modern states based on ideas which have been out of date for a thousand years.
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Ideas Modern Old Time Yourself
The moment you declare a set of ideas to be immune from criticism, satire, derision, or contempt, freedom of thought becomes impossible.
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Criticism Freedom Ideas Impossible Moments Thinking
What kind of Christmas present would Jesus ask Santa for?
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Funny Kind Present
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
If you’re offended, it’s your problem.
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Offense Problem Yourself
I’ve been worrying about God a little bit lately. It seems like he’s been in a bad mood. And I think it has to do with the quality of lovers he’s been getting.
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Bad God Himself Lover Mood Quality Worry
Faith without doubt is addiction.
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Addiction Doubt Faith
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
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
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
I write books I’d enjoy reading, I’m the reader standing behind my shoulder.
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Book Myself Reading Writing
In the cookie of life, friends are the chocolate chips.
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Chocolate Friendship Life
Our lives, our stories, flowed into one another’s, were no longer our own, individual, discrete.
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Live Ourselves Story
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
Once you put a thought into the world, it can be disagreed with, but it can’t be unthought.
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Thinking World Yourself
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

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

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