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He knew what he knew: that the real world was full of magic, so magical worlds could easily be real.

Salman Rushdie

The only people who see the whole picture,’ he murmured, ‘are the ones who step out of the frame.
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Deep Frame People Photograph Thinking Wisdom
Perhaps the story you finish is never the one you begin.
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Beginning End Story Yourself
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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Evidence Family Funny Important Shame Story
Between the adored and the adorer falls the shadow.
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Admire Fall Fame Shadow
Liberate yourself, because no one else is going to liberate you.
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Freedom Liberty Yourself
My horizon’s have shrunk and I have only endings to write.
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End Limitation Myself Restriction Write
It is very, very easy not to be offended by a book. You just have to shut it.
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Book Easy Yourself
From the beginning men used God to justify the unjustifiable.
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Beginning God Justice Man People
Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself.
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Freedom Game Life Talk
Among the great struggles of man-good/evil, reason/unreason, etc.-there is also this mighty conflict between the fantasy of Home and the fantasy of Away, the dream of roots and the mirage of the journey.
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Dreams Evil Fantasy Goodness Greatness Home Journey Man
In the cookie of life, friends are the chocolate chips.
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Chocolate Friendship Life
Free speech is not just free speech for people you admire. It’s also for people who you think of as reprehensible.
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Freedom People Talk Thinking Voice
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
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
We cannot allow religious hooligans to place limiting points on thought.
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Limitation Place Religious Thinking
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

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