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

Salman Rushdie

Masks beneath masks until suddenly the bare bloodless skull.
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Blood Head Hide Mask
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
My horizon’s have shrunk and I have only endings to write.
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End Limitation Myself Restriction Write
Religion, a mediaeval form of unreason, when combined with modern weaponry becomes a real threat to our freedoms. This religious totalitarianism has caused a deadly mutation in the heart of Islam and we see the tragic consequences in Paris today.
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Combination Freedom Heart Reason Religion Threat Tragedy
We are the storytelling animal.
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Animal Story Talk
For every snake, there is a ladder; for every ladder, a snake.
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Advice Game Ladder Life Snake
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
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
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
Even when things are at their worst, there’s a little voice in your head saying, ‘Good story!’
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Goodness Head Story Voice Worst
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
So India’s problem turns out to be the world’s problem. What happened in India has happened in God’s name. The problem’s name is God.
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God Name Problem Religious World
We were language’s magpies by nature, stealing whatever sounded bright and shiny.
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Bright Language Shine Sound Steal Theft
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
He knew what he knew: that the real world was full of magic, so magical worlds could easily be real.
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Himself Magic Reality World
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

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