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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

We were language’s magpies by nature, stealing whatever sounded bright and shiny.
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Bright Language Shine Sound Steal Theft
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
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
From the beginning men used God to justify the unjustifiable.
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Beginning God Justice Man People
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
It matters, it always matters, to name rubbish as rubbish; that to do otherwise is to legitimize it.
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Legal Name
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 cannot allow religious hooligans to place limiting points on thought.
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Limitation Place Religious Thinking
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
I admit it: above all things, I fear absurdity.
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Fear Mad Myself Weird
I didn’t become a writer to write about me.
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Myself Writing
Where there is no belief, there is no blasphemy.
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Belief One Liner
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
Reality is a question of perspective.
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Deep One Liner Perspective Question Reality
How do you defeat terrorism? Don’t be terrorized.
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Deep Defeat Fear Terrorism Yourself
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

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