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Liberate yourself, because no one else is going to liberate you.

Salman Rushdie

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
Between the adored and the adorer falls the shadow.
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Admire Fall Fame Shadow
For every snake, there is a ladder; for every ladder, a snake.
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Advice Game Ladder Life Snake
It matters, it always matters, to name rubbish as rubbish; that to do otherwise is to legitimize it.
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Legal Name
Perhaps the story you finish is never the one you begin.
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Beginning End Story Yourself
What’s real and what’s true aren’t necessarily the same.
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Home Necessary Reality True
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
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
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
From the beginning men used God to justify the unjustifiable.
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Beginning God Justice Man People
But there’s one thing we must all be clear about: terrorism is not the pursuit of legitimate goals by some sort of illegitimate means. Whatever the murderers may be trying to achieve, creating a better world certainly isn’t one of their goals. Instead they are out to murder innocent people.
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Achievement Creation Goal Innocence Legal Murder People Pursuit Terrorism
Literature is the one place in any society where, within the secrecy of our own heads, we can hear voices talking about everything in every possible way.
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Head Literature Place Possible Secret Society Talk Voice Way
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
It seems that the right of freedom of speech that was enshrined in numerous constitutions is now under attack by religious institutions.
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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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Ideas Modern Old Time Yourself
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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