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The only privilege literature deserves - and this privilege it requires in order to exist - is the privilege of being in…
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The liveliness of literature lies in its exceptionality, in being the individual, idiosyncratic vision of one human being, in which, to our…
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Five mysteries hold the keys to the unseen: the act of love, and the birth of a baby, and the contemplation of…
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There needs to be a thorough examination, by Muslims everywhere, of why it is that the faith they love breeds so many…
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Live on, survive, for the earth gives forth wonders. It may swallow your heart, but the wonders keep on coming. You stand…
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Good advice is rarer than rubies.
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In India, as elsewhere in our darkening world, religion is the poison in the blood. Where religion intervenes, mere innocence is no…
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For a fellow who's not to much to look at, you have the instincts of a champion.
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A man who invents himself needs someone to believe in him... Not only the need to be believed in, but the need…
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Free speech is life itself.
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After a long, hopeless war, people will settle for peace, at almost any price.
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If you want to tell the untold stories, if you want to give voice to the voiceless, you've got to find a…
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By means of our myths and legends we maintain a sense of what we are worth and who we are. Without them…
— Michael Moorcock
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Our myths are so many, our vision so dim, our self-deception so deep and our smugness so gross that scarcely any way…
— Nelson Algren
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In the waking dreams our societies permit, in our myths, our arts, our songs, we celebrate the nonbelongers, the different ones, the…
— Salman Rushdie
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But because we live in an age of science, we have a preoccupation with corroborating our myths.
— Michael Shermer
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When we lose our myths we lose our place in the universe.
— Madeleine L'Engle
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We have come from God, and inevitably the myths woven by us, though they contain error, will also reflect a splintered fragment…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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