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I write books I’d enjoy reading, I’m the reader standing behind my shoulder.

Salman Rushdie

People can do bad things with free speech as well as good. You have to defend the Ku Klux Klan as well as Martin Luther King. It’s like that. If you’re going to defend the principle, then you have to defend people who use the principle badly.
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Bad Defense Freedom People Principle Yourself
Ignorantly is how we all fall in love; for it is a kind of fall. Closing our eyes, we leap from that cliff in hope of a soft landing. Nor is it always soft; but still, without that leap nobody comes to life.
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Eyes Fall In Love Hope Ignorance Kind Life Soft
For every snake, there is a ladder; for every ladder, a snake.
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Advice Game Ladder Life Snake
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
It matters, it always matters, to name rubbish as rubbish; that to do otherwise is to legitimize it.
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Legal Name
In the cookie of life, friends are the chocolate chips.
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Chocolate Friendship Life
I write books I’d enjoy reading, I’m the reader standing behind my shoulder.
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Book Myself Reading Writing
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
Perhaps the story you finish is never the one you begin.
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Beginning End Story Yourself
No, I don’t think it’s fair to label Islam ‘violent.’ But I will say that to my knowledge, no writer has ever gone into hiding for criticizing the Amish.
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Criticism Hide Knowledge Thinking Violence Writing
Our lives, our stories, flowed into one another’s, were no longer our own, individual, discrete.
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Live Ourselves Story
If you actually want to change your world, there is a better way of doing it than blowing yourself up.
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Better Change Way World Yourself
We are the storytelling animal.
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Animal Story Talk
Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself.
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Freedom Game Life Talk
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
What one writer can make in the solitude of one room is something no power can easily destroy.
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Destroy Easy Oneself Power Room Solitude Writing

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