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Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself.

Salman Rushdie

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
Perhaps the story you finish is never the one you begin.
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Beginning End Story Yourself
What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.
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Existence Expression Freedom Offense
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
Reality is a question of perspective.
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Deep One Liner Perspective Question Reality
From the beginning men used God to justify the unjustifiable.
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Beginning God Justice Man People
I write books I’d enjoy reading, I’m the reader standing behind my shoulder.
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Book Myself Reading Writing
I admit it: above all things, I fear absurdity.
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Fear Mad Myself Weird
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
Respect for religion’ has become a code phrase meaning ‘fear of religion.’ Religions, like all other ideas, deserve criticism, satire, and, yes, our fearless disrespect.
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Criticism Deserve Fear Religion Respect
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
When a reader falls in love with a book, it leaves its essence inside him, like radioactive fallout in an arable field, and after that there are certain crops that will no longer grow in him, while other, stranger, more fantastic growths may occasionally be produced.
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Book Essence Fall In Love Growth Leaving Production Reading Strange
What kind of Christmas present would Jesus ask Santa for?
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Funny Kind Present
The world, somebody wrote, is the place we prove real by dying in it.
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Death Place Reality World
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
One of the things a writer is for is to say the unsayable, speak the unspeakable and ask difficult questions.
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Difficult Question Stay Talk Writing

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