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

Salman Rushdie

Religion, a mediaeval form of unreason, when combined with modern weaponry becomes a real threat to our freedoms. This religious totalitarianism has caused a deadly mutation in the heart of Islam and we see the tragic consequences in Paris today.
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Combination Freedom Heart Reason Religion Threat Tragedy
The world, somebody wrote, is the place we prove real by dying in it.
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Death Place Reality World
My horizon’s have shrunk and I have only endings to write.
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End Limitation Myself Restriction Write
We are the storytelling animal.
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Animal Story Talk
You can find shame in every house, burning in an ashtray, hanging framed upon a wall, covering a bed. But nobody notices it any more.
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Bed Frame Hang Home Notice Shame Wall
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
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
I didn’t become a writer to write about me.
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Myself Writing
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
What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.
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Existence Expression Freedom Offense
One of the strange things about violent and authoritarian regimes is they don’t like the glare of negative publicity.
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Negative Public Strange Violence
Liberate yourself, because no one else is going to liberate you.
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Freedom Liberty Yourself
In the cookie of life, friends are the chocolate chips.
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Chocolate Friendship Life
Our lives, our stories, flowed into one another’s, were no longer our own, individual, discrete.
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Live Ourselves Story
From the beginning men used God to justify the unjustifiable.
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Beginning God Justice Man People
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

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