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Book: Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights
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  1. Salman Rushdie _ Two Years Eight Months and

    Our group takes what I'll call a Post-Atheist stance. Our position is that god is a creation of human beings, who only exists because of the clap-hands-if-you-believe-in-fairies principle. If enough people were sensible enough not to clap hands, then this Tinker Bell god would die. However, unfortunately, billions of human beings are still prepared to defend their belief in some sort of god-fairy, and, as a result, god exists. What's worse is that he is now running amok.
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  2. Salman Rushdie _ Two Years Eight Months and

    How treacherous history is! Half-truths, ignorance, deceptions, false trails, errors and lies, and buried somewhere in between all of that, the truth, in which it is easy to lose faith, of which it is consequently easy to say, it's a chimera, there's no such thing, everything is relative, one man's absolute belief is another man's fairy tale; but about which we insist, we insist most emphatically, that it is too important an idea to give up to the relativity merchants.
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  3. Salman Rushdie _ Two Years Eight Months and

    These stories become what we know, what we understand, and what we are, or, perhaps we should say, what we have become, or can perhaps be.
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  4. Salman Rushdie _ Two Years Eight Months and

    This is known, and what is not known does not undermine it. This is the scientific way. To be open about the limits of one's knowledge increases public confidence in what one says is known.
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  5. Salman Rushdie _ Two Years Eight Months and

    Beware the man {or jinni} of action when he finally seeks to better himself with thought. A little thinking is a dangerous thing.
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  6. Salman Rushdie _ Two Years Eight Months and

    Human sanity was a poor, fragile thing at best,"
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  7. Salman Rushdie _ Two Years Eight Months and

    In the end, rage, no matter how profoundly justified, destroys the enraged.
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  8. Salman Rushdie _ Two Years Eight Months and

    The enemy is stupid, he replied. That is ground for hope. There is no originality in tyrants, and they learn nothing from the demise of their precursors. They will be brutal and stifling and engender hatred and destroy what men love and that will defeat them. All important battles are, in the end, conflicts between hatred and love, and we must hold to the idea that love is stronger than hate.
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  9. Salman Rushdie _ Two Years Eight Months and

    this is our tragedy, she said in his words, our fictions are killing us, but if we didn't have those fictions, maybe that would kill us too."
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  10. Salman Rushdie _ Two Years Eight Months and

    You will see, as time goes by," said Ibn Rushd, "that in the end it will be religion that will make men turn away from God. The godly are God's worst advocates. It may take a thousand and one years but in the end religion will shrivel away and only then will we begin to live in God's truth.
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  11. Salman Rushdie _ Two Years Eight Months and

    let me belong again to that faraway place I left so long ago, from which I am alienated, and which has forgotten me, in which I am an alien now even though it was the place where I began, let me belong again, walk those streets knowing they are mine, knowing that my story is a part of those streets, even though it isn't, it hasn't been for most of a lifetime, let it be so, let it be so
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  12. Salman Rushdie _ Two Years Eight Months and

    When Alice fell down the rabbit hole, it was an accident, but when she stepped through the looking glass, it was of her own free will, and a braver deed by far.
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