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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.

Salman Rushdie

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
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
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
If you’re offended, it’s your problem.
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Offense Problem Yourself
You can’t have modern states based on ideas which have been out of date for a thousand years.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
It matters, it always matters, to name rubbish as rubbish; that to do otherwise is to legitimize it.
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Legal Name
How do you defeat terrorism? Don’t be terrorized.
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Deep Defeat Fear Terrorism Yourself
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
The only people who see the whole picture,’ he murmured, ‘are the ones who step out of the frame.
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Deep Frame People Photograph Thinking Wisdom
Of course, there is nothing intrinsic linking any religion with any act of violence. The crusades don’t prove that Christianity was violent. The Inquisition doesn’t prove that Christianity tortures people. But that Christianity did torture people.
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Act Link People Religion Terrorism Torture Violence
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
What’s real and what’s true aren’t necessarily the same.
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Home Necessary Reality True
Once you put a thought into the world, it can be disagreed with, but it can’t be unthought.
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Thinking World Yourself
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.
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Exploration Heart Human Imagination Literature Place Society Spirit Truth
We have come to think of taking offence as a fundamental right. We value very little more highly than our rage, which gives us, in our opinion, the moral high ground. From there we can shoot down at our enemies and inflict heavy fatalities.
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Enemy Fundamental heavy Offense Opinion Ourselves Thinking
We all owe death a life.
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Death Life One Liner

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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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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