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My horizon’s have shrunk and I have only endings to write.

Salman Rushdie

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
We were language’s magpies by nature, stealing whatever sounded bright and shiny.
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Bright Language Shine Sound Steal Theft
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
Only the foolish, blinded by language’s conventions, think of fire as red or gold. Fire is blue at it’s melancholy rim, green in it’s envious heart. It may burn white, or even, in it’s greatest rages, black.
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Black Blind Fire Fools Gold Language Thinking
I’ve been worrying about God a little bit lately. It seems like he’s been in a bad mood. And I think it has to do with the quality of lovers he’s been getting.
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Bad God Himself Lover Mood Quality Worry
What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.
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Existence Expression Freedom Offense
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
We have come to think of taking offence as a fundamental right. We value very little more highly than our rage, which gives us, in our opinion, the moral high ground. From there we can shoot down at our enemies and inflict heavy fatalities.
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Enemy Fundamental heavy Offense Opinion Ourselves Thinking
My horizon’s have shrunk and I have only endings to write.
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End Limitation Myself Restriction Write
If somebody’s trying to shut you up, sing louder, and if possible, better.
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Better Loud Possible Sing Try Yourself
What I do think is evident is that those countries in the world where Islamic extremism has recovered the most power, those are also the countries which are most disliked.
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Country Evidence Hate Power Recover Thinking World
I have always thought that these two ways of talking, one is the fantastic, the fable, the fairy tale, and the other being history, the scholarly study of what happened, I think they’re both amazing ways to understand human nature.
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Fairy Tale Fantasy Human Myself Talk Thinking Understand Way
Religion is responsible for a lot of the problems in the history of the world and it’s not something that I practice or recommend, but to each his own.
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History Kind Man Problem Religion Responsible
Among the great struggles of man-good/evil, reason/unreason, etc.-there is also this mighty conflict between the fantasy of Home and the fantasy of Away, the dream of roots and the mirage of the journey.
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Dreams Evil Fantasy Goodness Greatness Home Journey Man
Between the adored and the adorer falls the shadow.
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Admire Fall Fame Shadow
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

My horizon’s have shrunk and I have only endings to write.

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