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We cannot allow religious hooligans to place limiting points on thought.

Salman Rushdie

What’s real and what’s true aren’t necessarily the same.
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Home Necessary Reality True
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
Language is courage: the ability to conceive a thought, to speak it, and by doing so to make it true.
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Ability Courage Language Talk Thinking True
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
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
In the waking dreams our societies permit, in our myths, our arts, our songs, we celebrate the nonbelongers, the different ones, the outlaws, the freaks.
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Art Celebration Different Dreams Law Mythology Society Song Wake Up
We are the storytelling animal.
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Animal Story Talk
In the cookie of life, friends are the chocolate chips.
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Chocolate Friendship Life
What kind of Christmas present would Jesus ask Santa for?
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Funny Kind Present
Reality is a question of perspective.
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Deep One Liner Perspective Question Reality
Ignorantly is how we all fall in love; for it is a kind of fall. Closing our eyes, we leap from that cliff in hope of a soft landing. Nor is it always soft; but still, without that leap nobody comes to life.
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Eyes Fall In Love Hope Ignorance Kind Life Soft
The world, somebody wrote, is the place we prove real by dying in it.
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Death Place Reality World
Between the adored and the adorer falls the shadow.
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Admire Fall Fame Shadow
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
How do you defeat terrorism? Don’t be terrorized.
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Deep Defeat Fear Terrorism Yourself
Masks beneath masks until suddenly the bare bloodless skull.
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Blood Head Hide Mask

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