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One of the strange things about violent and authoritarian regimes is they don’t like the glare of negative publicity.

Salman Rushdie

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
When a reader falls in love with a book, it leaves its essence inside him, like radioactive fallout in an arable field, and after that there are certain crops that will no longer grow in him, while other, stranger, more fantastic growths may occasionally be produced.
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Book Essence Fall In Love Growth Leaving Production Reading Strange
For every snake, there is a ladder; for every ladder, a snake.
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Advice Game Ladder Life Snake
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
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
Even when things are at their worst, there’s a little voice in your head saying, ‘Good story!’
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Goodness Head Story Voice Worst
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
Reality is a question of perspective.
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Deep One Liner Perspective Question Reality
Where there is no belief, there is no blasphemy.
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Belief One Liner
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
What I do think is evident is that those countries in the world where Islamic extremism has recovered the most power, those are also the countries which are most disliked.
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Country Evidence Hate Power Recover Thinking World
Perhaps the story you finish is never the one you begin.
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Beginning End Story Yourself
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
What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.
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Existence Expression Freedom Offense
So India’s problem turns out to be the world’s problem. What happened in India has happened in God’s name. The problem’s name is God.
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God Name Problem Religious World
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

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