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The only people who see the whole picture,’ he murmured, ‘are the ones who step out of the frame.

Salman Rushdie

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
Between the adored and the adorer falls the shadow.
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Admire Fall Fame Shadow
I write books I’d enjoy reading, I’m the reader standing behind my shoulder.
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Book Myself Reading Writing
One of the things a writer is for is to say the unsayable, speak the unspeakable and ask difficult questions.
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Difficult Question Stay Talk Writing
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
I admit it: above all things, I fear absurdity.
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Fear Mad Myself Weird
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
Faith without doubt is addiction.
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Addiction Doubt Faith
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
If you take a look at history, you will find that the understanding of what is good and evil has always existed before the individual religions. The religions were only invented by people afterwards, in order to express this idea.
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Evil Existence Expression Goodness History Ideas People Understand
Stories in families are colossally important. Every family has stories: some funny, some proud, some embarrassing, some shameful. Knowing them is proof of belonging to the family.
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Evidence Family Funny Important Shame Story
I stand with Charlie Hebdo, as we all must, to defend the art of satire.
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Art Defense Myself Poem Stand Support
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
Masks beneath masks until suddenly the bare bloodless skull.
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Blood Head Hide Mask
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
I didn’t become a writer to write about me.
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Myself Writing

The only people who see the whole picture,’ he murmured, ‘are the ones who step out of the frame.

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