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.
SALMAN RUSHDIETwo 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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Among the great struggles of man-good/evil, reason/unreason, etc.-there is also this mighty conflict between the fantasy of Home and the fantasy of Away, the dream of roots and the mirage of the journey.
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It is very, very easy not to be offended by a book. You just have to shut it.
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We are the storytelling animal.
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If you actually want to change your world, there is a better way of doing it than blowing yourself up.
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If you’re offended, it’s your problem.
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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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Self-censorship is a lie to yourself; if you are going to be trying to seriously create art, to create literary art, and you decide to hold back, to censor yourself, then you are a fool to yourself and it would be better that you kept your mouth shut and did not speak.
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One of the things a writer is for is to say the unsayable, speak the unspeakable and ask difficult questions.
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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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Reality is a question of perspective.
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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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In the cookie of life, friends are the chocolate chips.
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What kind of Christmas present would Jesus ask Santa for?
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What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.
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Between the adored and the adorer falls the shadow.
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