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Once you put a thought into the world, it can be disagreed with, but it can’t be unthought.

Salman Rushdie

In the waking dreams our societies permit, in our myths, our arts, our songs, we celebrate the nonbelongers, the different ones, the outlaws, the freaks.
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Art Celebration Different Dreams Law Mythology Society Song Wake Up
My horizon’s have shrunk and I have only endings to write.
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End Limitation Myself Restriction Write
What’s real and what’s true aren’t necessarily the same.
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Home Necessary Reality True
Reality is a question of perspective.
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Deep One Liner Perspective Question Reality
Those who do not have power over the story that dominates their lives, power to retell it, to rethink it, deconstruct it, joke about it, and change it as times change, truly are powerless, because they cannot think new thoughts.
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Change Domination Live Power Story Thinking Time True
Where there is no belief, there is no blasphemy.
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Belief One Liner
Our lives, our stories, flowed into one another’s, were no longer our own, individual, discrete.
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Live Ourselves Story
An attack upon our ability to tell stories is not just censorship – it is a crime against our nature as human beings.
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Ability Crime Human Nature Story
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
I have never really thought of myself as a writer about religion. And I think one of the things that happened to me as a result of all that is that I think it did for some people, many people, obscure the kind of writer that I actually am.
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Community Myself People Religious Result Writing
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
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
It matters, it always matters, to name rubbish as rubbish; that to do otherwise is to legitimize it.
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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
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
In the cookie of life, friends are the chocolate chips.
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Chocolate Friendship Life

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