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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

To understand just one life you have to swallow the world do you wonder, then, that I was a heavy child?
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Children heavy Life Understand World
My horizon’s have shrunk and I have only endings to write.
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End Limitation Myself Restriction Write
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
Between the adored and the adorer falls the shadow.
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Admire Fall Fame Shadow
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
The lessons one learns at school are not always the ones the school thinks it’s teaching.
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Education Learning Lesson Oneself Teaching Thinking
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
I write books I’d enjoy reading, I’m the reader standing behind my shoulder.
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Book Myself Reading Writing
Perhaps the story you finish is never the one you begin.
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Beginning End Story Yourself
The world, somebody wrote, is the place we prove real by dying in it.
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Death Place Reality World
Of course, there is nothing intrinsic linking any religion with any act of violence. The crusades don’t prove that Christianity was violent. The Inquisition doesn’t prove that Christianity tortures people. But that Christianity did torture people.
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Act Link People Religion Terrorism Torture Violence
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
Self-censorship is a lie to yourself; if you are going to be trying to seriously create art, to create literary art, and you decide to hold back, to censor yourself, then you are a fool to yourself and it would be better that you kept your mouth shut and did not speak.
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Decision Lying Serious Talk Try
Faith without doubt is addiction.
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Addiction Doubt Faith
One of the strange things about violent and authoritarian regimes is they don’t like the glare of negative publicity.
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Negative Public Strange Violence
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

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