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We all owe death a life.

Salman Rushdie

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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Science fiction is always a vehicle for ideas. It’s the form which allows either movies or books to be an exploration of how we should live.
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Book Exploration Fiction Ideas Love Movie Science
Faith without doubt is addiction.
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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
Of course, there is nothing intrinsic linking any religion with any act of violence. The crusades don’t prove that Christianity was violent. The Inquisition doesn’t prove that Christianity tortures people. But that Christianity did torture people.
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The world, somebody wrote, is the place we prove real by dying in it.
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Death Place Reality World
Literature is the one place in any society where, within the secrecy of our own heads, we can hear voices talking about everything in every possible way.
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Even when things are at their worst, there’s a little voice in your head saying, ‘Good story!’
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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
What’s real and what’s true aren’t necessarily the same.
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What kind of Christmas present would Jesus ask Santa for?
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Funny Kind Present
Perhaps the story you finish is never the one you begin.
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Once you put a thought into the world, it can be disagreed with, but it can’t be unthought.
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Thinking World Yourself
Where there is no belief, there is no blasphemy.
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We were language’s magpies by nature, stealing whatever sounded bright and shiny.
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What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.
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