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

Salman Rushdie

To understand just one life you have to swallow the world do you wonder, then, that I was a heavy child?
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Children heavy Life Understand World
If you take a look at history, you will find that the understanding of what is good and evil has always existed before the individual religions. The religions were only invented by people afterwards, in order to express this idea.
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Evil Existence Expression Goodness History Ideas People Understand
A poet’s work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it going to sleep.
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Fake Mistake Name Poet Sleep Stop Work World
Two things form the bedrock of any open society – freedom of expression and rule of law. If you don’t have those things, you don’t have a free country.
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Country Expression Freedom Law Rule Society
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
Science fiction is always a vehicle for ideas. It’s the form which allows either movies or books to be an exploration of how we should live.
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Book Exploration Fiction Ideas Love Movie Science
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
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
How do you defeat terrorism? Don’t be terrorized.
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Deep Defeat Fear Terrorism Yourself
We cannot allow religious hooligans to place limiting points on thought.
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Limitation Place Religious Thinking
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
For every snake, there is a ladder; for every ladder, a snake.
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Advice Game Ladder Life Snake
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
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
The world, somebody wrote, is the place we prove real by dying in it.
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Death Place Reality World
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

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