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.
SALMAN RUSHDIEReality is a question of perspective.
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Only the foolish, blinded by language’s conventions, think of fire as red or gold. Fire is blue at it’s melancholy rim, green in it’s envious heart. It may burn white, or even, in it’s greatest rages, black.
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One of the strange things about violent and authoritarian regimes is they don’t like the glare of negative publicity.
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From the beginning men used God to justify the unjustifiable.
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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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Liberate yourself, because no one else is going to liberate you.
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We were language’s magpies by nature, stealing whatever sounded bright and shiny.
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I’ve been worrying about God a little bit lately. It seems like he’s been in a bad mood. And I think it has to do with the quality of lovers he’s been getting.
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You can’t have modern states based on ideas which have been out of date for a thousand years.
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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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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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Faith without doubt is addiction.
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Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself.
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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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For every snake, there is a ladder; for every ladder, a snake.
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My horizon’s have shrunk and I have only endings to write.
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