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Too many people spouting too many words, and in the end those words will turn to bullets and stones.

Salman Rushdie

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
I admit it: above all things, I fear absurdity.
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Fear Mad Myself Weird
We all owe death a life.
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Death Life One Liner
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
Perhaps the story you finish is never the one you begin.
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Beginning End Story Yourself
Once you put a thought into the world, it can be disagreed with, but it can’t be unthought.
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Thinking World Yourself
We are the storytelling animal.
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Animal Story Talk
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
What kind of Christmas present would Jesus ask Santa for?
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Funny Kind Present
It is very, very easy not to be offended by a book. You just have to shut it.
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Book Easy Yourself
I didn’t become a writer to write about me.
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Myself Writing
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
The only people who see the whole picture,’ he murmured, ‘are the ones who step out of the frame.
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Deep Frame People Photograph Thinking Wisdom
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
Our lives, our stories, flowed into one another’s, were no longer our own, individual, discrete.
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Live Ourselves Story
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

Too many people spouting too many words, and in the end those words will turn to bullets and stones.

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