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

Salman Rushdie

Between the adored and the adorer falls the shadow.
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Admire Fall Fame Shadow
From the beginning men used God to justify the unjustifiable.
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Beginning God Justice Man People
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
Respect for religion’ has become a code phrase meaning ‘fear of religion.’ Religions, like all other ideas, deserve criticism, satire, and, yes, our fearless disrespect.
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Criticism Deserve Fear Religion Respect
Friendships are the family we make – not the one we inherit. I’ve always been someone to whom friendship, elective affinities, is as important as family.
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Family Friendship Important Inheritance Myself
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
If somebody’s trying to shut you up, sing louder, and if possible, better.
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Better Loud Possible Sing Try Yourself
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
Two things form the bedrock of any open society – freedom of expression and rule of law. If you don’t have those things, you don’t have a free country.
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Country Expression Freedom Law Rule Society
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
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
Perhaps the story you finish is never the one you begin.
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Beginning End Story Yourself
I don’t dictate to anyone what to believe and what not to. And I don’t want that to be dictated to me either.
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Believe Direction Myself
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
For every snake, there is a ladder; for every ladder, a snake.
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Advice Game Ladder Life Snake
What kind of Christmas present would Jesus ask Santa for?
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Funny Kind Present

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