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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

The world, somebody wrote, is the place we prove real by dying in it.
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Death Place Reality World
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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Faith without doubt is addiction.
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Addiction Doubt Faith
Only the foolish, blinded by language’s conventions, think of fire as red or gold. Fire is blue at it’s melancholy rim, green in it’s envious heart. It may burn white, or even, in it’s greatest rages, black.
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Black Blind Fire Fools Gold Language Thinking
You can find shame in every house, burning in an ashtray, hanging framed upon a wall, covering a bed. But nobody notices it any more.
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We were language’s magpies by nature, stealing whatever sounded bright and shiny.
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Bright Language Shine Sound Steal Theft
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
Once you put a thought into the world, it can be disagreed with, but it can’t be unthought.
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Two things form the bedrock of any open society – freedom of expression and rule of law. If you don’t have those things, you don’t have a free country.
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We all owe death a life.
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Death Life One Liner
Even when things are at their worst, there’s a little voice in your head saying, ‘Good story!’
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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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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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What kind of Christmas present would Jesus ask Santa for?
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Funny Kind Present
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
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

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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