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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
We have come to think of taking offence as a fundamental right. We value very little more highly than our rage, which gives us, in our opinion, the moral high ground. From there we can shoot down at our enemies and inflict heavy fatalities.
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Enemy Fundamental heavy Offense Opinion Ourselves Thinking
Between the adored and the adorer falls the shadow.
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Admire Fall Fame Shadow
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
I write books I’d enjoy reading, I’m the reader standing behind my shoulder.
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Book Myself Reading Writing
Faith without doubt is addiction.
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Addiction Doubt Faith
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
Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself.
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Freedom Game Life Talk
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
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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Country Expression Freedom Law Rule Society
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
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
Every time you finish a book, you have a terrible feeling that there’s just never going to be another one. But fortunately, so far, the next one has always shown up.
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Book Fortunate Terrible Time Yourself
In the cookie of life, friends are the chocolate chips.
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Chocolate Friendship Life
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
Even when things are at their worst, there’s a little voice in your head saying, ‘Good story!’
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Goodness Head Story Voice Worst

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