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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

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
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
No, I don’t think it’s fair to label Islam ‘violent.’ But I will say that to my knowledge, no writer has ever gone into hiding for criticizing the Amish.
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Criticism Hide Knowledge Thinking Violence Writing
Religion is responsible for a lot of the problems in the history of the world and it’s not something that I practice or recommend, but to each his own.
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History Kind Man Problem Religion Responsible
I admit it: above all things, I fear absurdity.
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Fear Mad Myself Weird
Where there is no belief, there is no blasphemy.
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Belief One Liner
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
I don’t dictate to anyone what to believe and what not to. And I don’t want that to be dictated to me either.
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One of the things a writer is for is to say the unsayable, speak the unspeakable and ask difficult questions.
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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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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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Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself.
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Perhaps the story you finish is never the one you begin.
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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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A poet’s work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it going to sleep.
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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

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