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

Salman Rushdie

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’s real and what’s true aren’t necessarily the same.
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Home Necessary Reality True
We are the storytelling animal.
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Animal Story Talk
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
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
Where there is no belief, there is no blasphemy.
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Belief One Liner
What kind of Christmas present would Jesus ask Santa for?
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Funny Kind Present
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
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
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
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
Liberate yourself, because no one else is going to liberate you.
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Freedom Liberty Yourself
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
Between the adored and the adorer falls the shadow.
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Admire Fall Fame Shadow
Faith without doubt is addiction.
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Addiction Doubt Faith

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