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Ignorantly is how we all fall in love; for it is a kind of fall. Closing our eyes, we leap from that cliff in hope of a soft landing. Nor is it always soft; but still, without that leap nobody comes to life.

Salman Rushdie

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
I’ve been worrying about God a little bit lately. It seems like he’s been in a bad mood. And I think it has to do with the quality of lovers he’s been getting.
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Bad God Himself Lover Mood Quality Worry
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
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
People can do bad things with free speech as well as good. You have to defend the Ku Klux Klan as well as Martin Luther King. It’s like that. If you’re going to defend the principle, then you have to defend people who use the principle badly.
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Bad Defense Freedom People Principle Yourself
Self-censorship is a lie to yourself; if you are going to be trying to seriously create art, to create literary art, and you decide to hold back, to censor yourself, then you are a fool to yourself and it would be better that you kept your mouth shut and did not speak.
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Decision Lying Serious Talk Try
Faith without doubt is addiction.
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Addiction Doubt Faith
But there’s one thing we must all be clear about: terrorism is not the pursuit of legitimate goals by some sort of illegitimate means. Whatever the murderers may be trying to achieve, creating a better world certainly isn’t one of their goals. Instead they are out to murder innocent people.
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Achievement Creation Goal Innocence Legal Murder People Pursuit Terrorism
If somebody’s trying to shut you up, sing louder, and if possible, better.
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Better Loud Possible Sing Try Yourself
Masks beneath masks until suddenly the bare bloodless skull.
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Blood Head Hide Mask
What one writer can make in the solitude of one room is something no power can easily destroy.
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Destroy Easy Oneself Power Room Solitude Writing
In the cookie of life, friends are the chocolate chips.
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Chocolate Friendship Life
Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself.
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Freedom Game Life Talk
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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Believe Direction Myself
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 all owe death a life.
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Death Life One Liner

Ignorantly is how we all fall in love; for it is a kind of fall. Closing our eyes, we leap from that cliff in hope of a soft landing. Nor is it always soft; but still, without that leap nobody comes to life.

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Ignorantly is how we all fall in love; for it is a kind of fall. Closing our eyes, we leap from that cliff in hope of a soft landing. Nor is it always soft; but still, without that leap nobody comes to life.

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