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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He knew what he knew: that the real world was full of magic, so magical worlds could easily be real.
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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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It is very, very easy not to be offended by a book. You just have to shut it.
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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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Between the adored and the adorer falls the shadow.
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I stand with Charlie Hebdo, as we all must, to defend the art of satire.
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What one writer can make in the solitude of one room is something no power can easily destroy.
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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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We are the storytelling animal.
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What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.
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I didn’t become a writer to write about me.
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Perhaps the story you finish is never the one you begin.
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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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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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We were language’s magpies by nature, stealing whatever sounded bright and shiny.
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I admit it: above all things, I fear absurdity.
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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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