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What’s real and what’s true aren’t necessarily the same.

Salman Rushdie

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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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
Of course, there is nothing intrinsic linking any religion with any act of violence. The crusades don’t prove that Christianity was violent. The Inquisition doesn’t prove that Christianity tortures people. But that Christianity did torture people.
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Act Link People Religion Terrorism Torture Violence
The moment you declare a set of ideas to be immune from criticism, satire, derision, or contempt, freedom of thought becomes impossible.
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Criticism Freedom Ideas Impossible Moments Thinking
What kind of Christmas present would Jesus ask Santa for?
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Funny Kind Present
I admit it: above all things, I fear absurdity.
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Fear Mad Myself Weird
It matters, it always matters, to name rubbish as rubbish; that to do otherwise is to legitimize it.
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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
If somebody’s trying to shut you up, sing louder, and if possible, better.
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Better Loud Possible Sing Try Yourself
From the beginning men used God to justify the unjustifiable.
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Beginning God Justice Man People
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
An attack upon our ability to tell stories is not just censorship – it is a crime against our nature as human beings.
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Ability Crime Human Nature Story
For every snake, there is a ladder; for every ladder, a snake.
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Advice Game Ladder Life Snake
My horizon’s have shrunk and I have only endings to write.
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End Limitation Myself Restriction Write
In the cookie of life, friends are the chocolate chips.
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Something was badly amiss with the spiritual life of the planet, Too many demons inside people claiming to believe in God.
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