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

Salman Rushdie

I admit it: above all things, I fear absurdity.
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Fear Mad Myself Weird
Literature is where I go to explore the highest and lowest places in human society and in the human spirit, where I hope to find not absolute truth but the truth of the tale, of the imagination and of the heart.
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Exploration Heart Human Imagination Literature Place Society Spirit Truth
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
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
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
From the beginning men used God to justify the unjustifiable.
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Beginning God Justice Man People
Masks beneath masks until suddenly the bare bloodless skull.
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Blood Head Hide Mask
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
A poet’s work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it going to sleep.
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Fake Mistake Name Poet Sleep Stop Work World
I didn’t become a writer to write about me.
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Myself Writing
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
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
We were language’s magpies by nature, stealing whatever sounded bright and shiny.
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Bright Language Shine Sound Steal Theft
For every snake, there is a ladder; for every ladder, a snake.
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Advice Game Ladder Life Snake
Where there is no belief, there is no blasphemy.
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Belief One Liner
Perhaps the story you finish is never the one you begin.
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Beginning End Story Yourself

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