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Our lives, our stories, flowed into one another’s, were no longer our own, individual, discrete.

Salman Rushdie

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
It matters, it always matters, to name rubbish as rubbish; that to do otherwise is to legitimize it.
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Legal Name
My horizon’s have shrunk and I have only endings to write.
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End Limitation Myself Restriction Write
Masks beneath masks until suddenly the bare bloodless skull.
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Blood Head Hide Mask
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
From the beginning men used God to justify the unjustifiable.
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Beginning God Justice Man People
I have always thought that these two ways of talking, one is the fantastic, the fable, the fairy tale, and the other being history, the scholarly study of what happened, I think they’re both amazing ways to understand human nature.
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Fairy Tale Fantasy Human Myself Talk Thinking Understand Way
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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Constitution Freedom Religious Right Talk
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
You can’t have modern states based on ideas which have been out of date for a thousand years.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
Religion is responsible for a lot of the problems in the history of the world and it’s not something that I practice or recommend, but to each his own.
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History Kind Man Problem Religion Responsible
I write books I’d enjoy reading, I’m the reader standing behind my shoulder.
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Book Myself Reading Writing
We cannot allow religious hooligans to place limiting points on thought.
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Limitation Place Religious Thinking
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
Between the adored and the adorer falls the shadow.
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Admire Fall Fame Shadow

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