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What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.

Salman Rushdie

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
What’s real and what’s true aren’t necessarily the same.
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Home Necessary Reality True
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
You can’t have modern states based on ideas which have been out of date for a thousand years.
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Ideas Modern Old Time Yourself
Only the foolish, blinded by language’s conventions, think of fire as red or gold. Fire is blue at it’s melancholy rim, green in it’s envious heart. It may burn white, or even, in it’s greatest rages, black.
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Black Blind Fire Fools Gold Language Thinking
We all owe death a life.
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Death Life One Liner
Where there is no belief, there is no blasphemy.
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Belief One Liner
To understand just one life you have to swallow the world do you wonder, then, that I was a heavy child?
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Children heavy Life Understand World
Reality is a question of perspective.
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Deep One Liner Perspective Question Reality
I write books I’d enjoy reading, I’m the reader standing behind my shoulder.
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Book Myself Reading Writing
An attack upon our ability to tell stories is not just censorship – it is a crime against our nature as human beings.
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Ability Crime Human Nature Story
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
So India’s problem turns out to be the world’s problem. What happened in India has happened in God’s name. The problem’s name is God.
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God Name Problem Religious World
We cannot allow religious hooligans to place limiting points on thought.
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Limitation Place Religious Thinking
The world, somebody wrote, is the place we prove real by dying in it.
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Death Place Reality World
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

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