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

Salman Rushdie

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

Existence Expression Freedom Offense
What kind of Christmas present would Jesus ask Santa for?
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Funny Kind Present
I write books I’d enjoy reading, I’m the reader standing behind my shoulder.
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Book Myself Reading Writing
What I do think is evident is that those countries in the world where Islamic extremism has recovered the most power, those are also the countries which are most disliked.
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Country Evidence Hate Power Recover Thinking World
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
For every snake, there is a ladder; for every ladder, a snake.
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Advice Game Ladder Life Snake
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
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
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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Head Literature Place Possible Secret Society Talk Voice Way
I admit it: above all things, I fear absurdity.
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Fear Mad Myself Weird
It matters, it always matters, to name rubbish as rubbish; that to do otherwise is to legitimize it.
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Legal Name
We are the storytelling animal.
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Animal Story Talk
Faith without doubt is addiction.
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Addiction Doubt Faith
In the cookie of life, friends are the chocolate chips.
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Chocolate Friendship Life
It seems that the right of freedom of speech that was enshrined in numerous constitutions is now under attack by religious institutions.
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Constitution Freedom Religious Right Talk
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

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