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I don't think there is any good answer to the question why shouldn't gays and lesbians who want to serve their country be allowed to do it.

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What I've always seen in writers and artists is the courage it takes to make an original work of art. I think the real risks in literature are linguistic and intellectual, and I hope we can highlight those, as well as political courage.

Art, Intellectual, Real, Seen, Think, Thinking
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Language is courage: the ability to conceive a thought, to speak it, and by doing so to make it true.

Courage, Communication, Novelists, Ability, Speak

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.

Joke, Powerless, Retell, Stories, Storytelling, Thinking

The only people who see the whole picture,' he murmured, 'are the ones who step out of the frame.

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Perhaps the story you finish is never the one you begin.

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I reluctantly concluded that there was no way for me to help bring into being the Muslim culture I'd dreamed of, the progressive, irreverent, skeptical, argumentative, playful and unafraid culture which is what I've always understood as freedom. . . . Actually Existing Islam. . . which makes literalism a weapon and redescription a crime, will never let the likes of me in.

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