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To understand just one life you have to swallow the world do you wonder, then, that I was a heavy child?

Salman Rushdie

We cannot allow religious hooligans to place limiting points on thought.
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Limitation Place Religious Thinking
What’s real and what’s true aren’t necessarily the same.
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Home Necessary Reality True
Literature is the one place in any society where, within the secrecy of our own heads, we can hear voices talking about everything in every possible way.
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Head Literature Place Possible Secret Society Talk Voice Way
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
Between the adored and the adorer falls the shadow.
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Admire Fall Fame Shadow
When a reader falls in love with a book, it leaves its essence inside him, like radioactive fallout in an arable field, and after that there are certain crops that will no longer grow in him, while other, stranger, more fantastic growths may occasionally be produced.
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Book Essence Fall In Love Growth Leaving Production Reading Strange
Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself.
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Freedom Game Life Talk
How do you defeat terrorism? Don’t be terrorized.
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Deep Defeat Fear Terrorism Yourself
Religion, a mediaeval form of unreason, when combined with modern weaponry becomes a real threat to our freedoms. This religious totalitarianism has caused a deadly mutation in the heart of Islam and we see the tragic consequences in Paris today.
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Combination Freedom Heart Reason Religion Threat Tragedy
Literature is where I go to explore the highest and lowest places in human society and in the human spirit, where I hope to find not absolute truth but the truth of the tale, of the imagination and of the heart.
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Exploration Heart Human Imagination Literature Place Society Spirit Truth
Reality is a question of perspective.
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Deep One Liner Perspective Question Reality
Where there is no belief, there is no blasphemy.
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Belief One Liner
Liberate yourself, because no one else is going to liberate you.
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Freedom Liberty Yourself
Until you know who you are you can’t write.
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Writing Yourself
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
Science fiction is always a vehicle for ideas. It’s the form which allows either movies or books to be an exploration of how we should live.
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Book Exploration Fiction Ideas Love Movie Science

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