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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

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
Faith without doubt is addiction.
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Addiction Doubt Faith
Something was badly amiss with the spiritual life of the planet, Too many demons inside people claiming to believe in God.
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Bad Believe Demon God Life People Spiritual
Perhaps the story you finish is never the one you begin.
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Beginning End Story Yourself
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
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
Between the adored and the adorer falls the shadow.
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Admire Fall Fame Shadow
The moment you declare a set of ideas to be immune from criticism, satire, derision, or contempt, freedom of thought becomes impossible.
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Criticism Freedom Ideas Impossible Moments Thinking
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
The world, somebody wrote, is the place we prove real by dying in it.
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Death Place Reality World
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
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
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
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
If you’re offended, it’s your problem.
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Offense Problem Yourself
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

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

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