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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

Masks beneath masks until suddenly the bare bloodless skull.
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Blood Head Hide Mask
I think if we wish to live in any kind of a moral universe, we must hold the perpetrators of violence responsible for the violence they perpetrate. It’s very simple. The criminal is responsible for the crime.
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Crime Kind Moral Responsible Simplicity Thinking Universe Violence
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
Where there is no belief, there is no blasphemy.
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Belief One Liner
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
Self-censorship is a lie to yourself; if you are going to be trying to seriously create art, to create literary art, and you decide to hold back, to censor yourself, then you are a fool to yourself and it would be better that you kept your mouth shut and did not speak.
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Decision Lying Serious Talk Try
If you actually want to change your world, there is a better way of doing it than blowing yourself up.
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Better Change Way World 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
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
For every snake, there is a ladder; for every ladder, a snake.
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Advice Game Ladder Life Snake
What’s real and what’s true aren’t necessarily the same.
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Home Necessary Reality True
Our lives, our stories, flowed into one another’s, were no longer our own, individual, discrete.
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Live Ourselves Story
We are the storytelling animal.
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Animal Story Talk
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
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
Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself.
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Freedom Game Life Talk

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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