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One of the things a writer is for is to say the unsayable, speak the unspeakable and ask difficult questions.

Salman Rushdie

It seems that the right of freedom of speech that was enshrined in numerous constitutions is now under attack by religious institutions.
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Constitution Freedom Religious Right Talk
He knew what he knew: that the real world was full of magic, so magical worlds could easily be real.
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Himself Magic Reality World
Two things form the bedrock of any open society – freedom of expression and rule of law. If you don’t have those things, you don’t have a free country.
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Country Expression Freedom Law Rule Society
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
Between the adored and the adorer falls the shadow.
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Admire Fall Fame Shadow
What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.
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Existence Expression Freedom Offense
The moment you declare a set of ideas to be immune from criticism, satire, derision, or contempt, freedom of thought becomes impossible.
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Criticism Freedom Ideas Impossible Moments Thinking
What kind of Christmas present would Jesus ask Santa for?
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Funny Kind Present
It matters, it always matters, to name rubbish as rubbish; that to do otherwise is to legitimize it.
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Legal Name
The world, somebody wrote, is the place we prove real by dying in it.
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Death Place Reality World
Faith without doubt is addiction.
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Addiction Doubt Faith
When a reader falls in love with a book, it leaves its essence inside him, like radioactive fallout in an arable field, and after that there are certain crops that will no longer grow in him, while other, stranger, more fantastic growths may occasionally be produced.
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Book Essence Fall In Love Growth Leaving Production Reading Strange
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
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
Free speech is not just free speech for people you admire. It’s also for people who you think of as reprehensible.
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Freedom People Talk Thinking Voice
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

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