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

Salman Rushdie

We cannot allow religious hooligans to place limiting points on thought.
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Limitation Place Religious Thinking
What kind of Christmas present would Jesus ask Santa for?
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Funny Kind Present
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
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
What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.
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Existence Expression Freedom Offense
What’s real and what’s true aren’t necessarily the same.
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Home Necessary Reality True
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
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
For every snake, there is a ladder; for every ladder, a snake.
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Advice Game Ladder Life Snake
My horizon’s have shrunk and I have only endings to write.
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End Limitation Myself Restriction Write
We were language’s magpies by nature, stealing whatever sounded bright and shiny.
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Bright Language Shine Sound Steal Theft
Religion is responsible for a lot of the problems in the history of the world and it’s not something that I practice or recommend, but to each his own.
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History Kind Man Problem Religion Responsible
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
Our lives, our stories, flowed into one another’s, were no longer our own, individual, discrete.
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Live Ourselves Story
We all owe death a life.
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Death Life One Liner
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

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