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

Salman Rushdie

But there’s one thing we must all be clear about: terrorism is not the pursuit of legitimate goals by some sort of illegitimate means. Whatever the murderers may be trying to achieve, creating a better world certainly isn’t one of their goals. Instead they are out to murder innocent people.
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Achievement Creation Goal Innocence Legal Murder People Pursuit Terrorism
Where there is no belief, there is no blasphemy.
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Belief One Liner
What’s real and what’s true aren’t necessarily the same.
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Home Necessary Reality True
I admit it: above all things, I fear absurdity.
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Fear Mad Myself Weird
Until you know who you are you can’t write.
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Writing Yourself
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
I think if we wish to live in any kind of a moral universe, we must hold the perpetrators of violence responsible for the violence they perpetrate. It’s very simple. The criminal is responsible for the crime.
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Crime Kind Moral Responsible Simplicity Thinking Universe Violence
Perhaps the story you finish is never the one you begin.
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Beginning End Story Yourself
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
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
Our lives, our stories, flowed into one another’s, were no longer our own, individual, discrete.
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Live Ourselves Story
Between the adored and the adorer falls the shadow.
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Admire Fall Fame Shadow
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
Language is courage: the ability to conceive a thought, to speak it, and by doing so to make it true.
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Ability Courage Language Talk Thinking True
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
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

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

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