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Language is courage: the ability to conceive a thought, to speak it, and by doing so to make it true.

Salman Rushdie

One of the things a writer is for is to say the unsayable, speak the unspeakable and ask difficult questions.
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Difficult Question Stay Talk Writing
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
If you’re offended, it’s your problem.
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Offense Problem Yourself
I write books I’d enjoy reading, I’m the reader standing behind my shoulder.
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Book Myself Reading Writing
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
Where there is no belief, there is no blasphemy.
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Belief One Liner
We are the storytelling animal.
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Animal Story Talk
I didn’t become a writer to write about me.
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Myself Writing
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
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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Constitution Freedom Religious Right Talk
In the cookie of life, friends are the chocolate chips.
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Chocolate Friendship Life
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
The lessons one learns at school are not always the ones the school thinks it’s teaching.
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Education Learning Lesson Oneself Teaching Thinking
I admit it: above all things, I fear absurdity.
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Fear Mad Myself Weird
The world, somebody wrote, is the place we prove real by dying in it.
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Death Place Reality World
Every time you finish a book, you have a terrible feeling that there’s just never going to be another one. But fortunately, so far, the next one has always shown up.
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Book Fortunate Terrible Time Yourself

Language is courage: the ability to conceive a thought, to speak it, and by doing so to make it true.

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