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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

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
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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Once you put a thought into the world, it can be disagreed with, but it can’t be unthought.
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Thinking World Yourself
I didn’t become a writer to write about me.
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Myself Writing
Perhaps the story you finish is never the one you begin.
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Beginning End Story 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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Reality is a question of perspective.
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Deep One Liner Perspective Question Reality
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
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
My horizon’s have shrunk and I have only endings to write.
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End Limitation Myself Restriction Write
The only people who see the whole picture,’ he murmured, ‘are the ones who step out of the frame.
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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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It is very, very easy not to be offended by a book. You just have to shut it.
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Stories in families are colossally important. Every family has stories: some funny, some proud, some embarrassing, some shameful. Knowing them is proof of belonging to the family.
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What kind of Christmas present would Jesus ask Santa for?
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Funny Kind Present
In the cookie of life, friends are the chocolate chips.
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Chocolate Friendship Life

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