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

Salman Rushdie

Between the adored and the adorer falls the shadow.
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Admire Fall Fame Shadow
I didn’t become a writer to write about me.
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Myself Writing
Ignorantly is how we all fall in love; for it is a kind of fall. Closing our eyes, we leap from that cliff in hope of a soft landing. Nor is it always soft; but still, without that leap nobody comes to life.
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Eyes Fall In Love Hope Ignorance Kind Life Soft
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
Perhaps the story you finish is never the one you begin.
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Beginning End Story Yourself
In the cookie of life, friends are the chocolate chips.
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Chocolate Friendship Life
Every time you finish a book, you have a terrible feeling that there’s just never going to be another one. But fortunately, so far, the next one has always shown up.
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Book Fortunate Terrible Time Yourself
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
Language is courage: the ability to conceive a thought, to speak it, and by doing so to make it true.
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Ability Courage Language Talk Thinking True
Friendships are the family we make – not the one we inherit. I’ve always been someone to whom friendship, elective affinities, is as important as family.
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Family Friendship Important Inheritance Myself
Reality is a question of perspective.
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Deep One Liner Perspective Question Reality
What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.
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Existence Expression Freedom Offense
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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Dreams Evil Fantasy Goodness Greatness Home Journey Man
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
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
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

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