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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.

Salman Rushdie

From the beginning men used God to justify the unjustifiable.
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Beginning God Justice Man People
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
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
What I do think is evident is that those countries in the world where Islamic extremism has recovered the most power, those are also the countries which are most disliked.
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Country Evidence Hate Power Recover Thinking World
Until you know who you are you can’t write.
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Writing Yourself
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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Head Literature Place Possible Secret Society Talk Voice Way
We are the storytelling animal.
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Animal Story Talk
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
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
I didn’t become a writer to write about me.
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Myself Writing
Reality is a question of perspective.
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Deep One Liner Perspective Question Reality
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
It matters, it always matters, to name rubbish as rubbish; that to do otherwise is to legitimize it.
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Legal Name
How do you defeat terrorism? Don’t be terrorized.
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Deep Defeat Fear Terrorism Yourself
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
People can do bad things with free speech as well as good. You have to defend the Ku Klux Klan as well as Martin Luther King. It’s like that. If you’re going to defend the principle, then you have to defend people who use the principle badly.
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Bad Defense Freedom People Principle Yourself

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