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The moment you declare a set of ideas to be immune from criticism, satire, derision, or contempt, freedom of thought becomes impossible.

Salman Rushdie

What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.
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Existence Expression Freedom Offense
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
Until you know who you are you can’t write.
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Writing Yourself
We were language’s magpies by nature, stealing whatever sounded bright and shiny.
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Bright Language Shine Sound Steal Theft
We all owe death a life.
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Death Life One Liner
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
Respect for religion’ has become a code phrase meaning ‘fear of religion.’ Religions, like all other ideas, deserve criticism, satire, and, yes, our fearless disrespect.
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Criticism Deserve Fear Religion Respect
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
I didn’t become a writer to write about me.
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Myself Writing
The world, somebody wrote, is the place we prove real by dying in it.
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Death Place Reality World
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
One of the strange things about violent and authoritarian regimes is they don’t like the glare of negative publicity.
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Negative Public Strange Violence
We have come to think of taking offence as a fundamental right. We value very little more highly than our rage, which gives us, in our opinion, the moral high ground. From there we can shoot down at our enemies and inflict heavy fatalities.
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Enemy Fundamental heavy Offense Opinion Ourselves Thinking
In the cookie of life, friends are the chocolate chips.
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Chocolate Friendship Life
If you take a look at history, you will find that the understanding of what is good and evil has always existed before the individual religions. The religions were only invented by people afterwards, in order to express this idea.
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Evil Existence Expression Goodness History Ideas People Understand
We cannot allow religious hooligans to place limiting points on thought.
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Limitation Place Religious Thinking

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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