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

Salman Rushdie

Masks beneath masks until suddenly the bare bloodless skull.
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Blood Head Hide Mask
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
Free speech is not just free speech for people you admire. It’s also for people who you think of as reprehensible.
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Freedom People Talk Thinking Voice
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
I’ve been worrying about God a little bit lately. It seems like he’s been in a bad mood. And I think it has to do with the quality of lovers he’s been getting.
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Bad God Himself Lover Mood Quality Worry
It matters, it always matters, to name rubbish as rubbish; that to do otherwise is to legitimize it.
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Legal Name
In the cookie of life, friends are the chocolate chips.
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Chocolate Friendship Life
From the beginning men used God to justify the unjustifiable.
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Beginning God Justice Man People
It seems that the right of freedom of speech that was enshrined in numerous constitutions is now under attack by religious institutions.
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Constitution Freedom Religious Right Talk
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
Liberate yourself, because no one else is going to liberate you.
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Freedom Liberty Yourself
Faith without doubt is addiction.
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Addiction Doubt Faith
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
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

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