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

Salman Rushdie

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
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
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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Bad Believe Demon God Life People Spiritual
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
For every snake, there is a ladder; for every ladder, a snake.
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Advice Game Ladder Life Snake
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
Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself.
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Freedom Game Life Talk
A poet’s work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it going to sleep.
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Fake Mistake Name Poet Sleep Stop Work World
From the beginning men used God to justify the unjustifiable.
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Beginning God Justice Man People
He knew what he knew: that the real world was full of magic, so magical worlds could easily be real.
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Himself Magic Reality World
I write books I’d enjoy reading, I’m the reader standing behind my shoulder.
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Book Myself Reading Writing
Stories in families are colossally important. Every family has stories: some funny, some proud, some embarrassing, some shameful. Knowing them is proof of belonging to the family.
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Evidence Family Funny Important Shame Story
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
Between the adored and the adorer falls the shadow.
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Admire Fall Fame Shadow
Where there is no belief, there is no blasphemy.
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Belief One Liner
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

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