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Free speech is not just free speech for people you admire. It’s also for people who you think of as reprehensible.

Salman Rushdie

Reality is a question of perspective.
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Deep One Liner Perspective Question Reality
What kind of Christmas present would Jesus ask Santa for?
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Funny Kind Present
Literature is where I go to explore the highest and lowest places in human society and in the human spirit, where I hope to find not absolute truth but the truth of the tale, of the imagination and of the heart.
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Exploration Heart Human Imagination Literature Place Society Spirit Truth
Perhaps the story you finish is never the one you begin.
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Beginning End Story Yourself
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
Between the adored and the adorer falls the shadow.
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Admire Fall Fame Shadow
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
I have never really thought of myself as a writer about religion. And I think one of the things that happened to me as a result of all that is that I think it did for some people, many people, obscure the kind of writer that I actually am.
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Community Myself People Religious Result Writing
We were language’s magpies by nature, stealing whatever sounded bright and shiny.
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Bright Language Shine Sound Steal Theft
I write books I’d enjoy reading, I’m the reader standing behind my shoulder.
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Book Myself Reading Writing
If you’re offended, it’s your problem.
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Offense Problem Yourself
What’s real and what’s true aren’t necessarily the same.
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Home Necessary Reality True
Among the great struggles of man-good/evil, reason/unreason, etc.-there is also this mighty conflict between the fantasy of Home and the fantasy of Away, the dream of roots and the mirage of the journey.
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Dreams Evil Fantasy Goodness Greatness Home Journey Man
You can’t have modern states based on ideas which have been out of date for a thousand years.
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Ideas Modern Old Time Yourself
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

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