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What one writer can make in the solitude of one room is something no power can easily destroy.

Salman Rushdie

Our lives, our stories, flowed into one another’s, were no longer our own, individual, discrete.
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Live Ourselves Story
Every time you finish a book, you have a terrible feeling that there’s just never going to be another one. But fortunately, so far, the next one has always shown up.
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Book Fortunate Terrible Time Yourself
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
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
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
What’s real and what’s true aren’t necessarily the same.
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Home Necessary Reality True
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
I didn’t become a writer to write about me.
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Myself Writing
Language is courage: the ability to conceive a thought, to speak it, and by doing so to make it true.
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Ability Courage Language Talk Thinking True
We are the storytelling animal.
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Animal Story Talk
Liberate yourself, because no one else is going to liberate you.
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Freedom Liberty Yourself
The moment you declare a set of ideas to be immune from criticism, satire, derision, or contempt, freedom of thought becomes impossible.
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Criticism Freedom Ideas Impossible Moments Thinking
I admit it: above all things, I fear absurdity.
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Fear Mad Myself Weird
Those who do not have power over the story that dominates their lives, power to retell it, to rethink it, deconstruct it, joke about it, and change it as times change, truly are powerless, because they cannot think new thoughts.
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Change Domination Live Power Story Thinking Time True
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
I don’t dictate to anyone what to believe and what not to. And I don’t want that to be dictated to me either.
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Believe Direction Myself

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