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Free speech is not just free speech for people you admire. It’s also for people who you think of as reprehensible.

Salman Rushdie

I think if we wish to live in any kind of a moral universe, we must hold the perpetrators of violence responsible for the violence they perpetrate. It’s very simple. The criminal is responsible for the crime.
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Crime Kind Moral Responsible Simplicity Thinking Universe Violence
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
Masks beneath masks until suddenly the bare bloodless skull.
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Blood Head Hide Mask
I admit it: above all things, I fear absurdity.
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Fear Mad Myself Weird
I don’t dictate to anyone what to believe and what not to. And I don’t want that to be dictated to me either.
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Believe Direction Myself
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
My horizon’s have shrunk and I have only endings to write.
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End Limitation Myself Restriction Write
I stand with Charlie Hebdo, as we all must, to defend the art of satire.
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Art Defense Myself Poem Stand Support
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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Decision Lying Serious Talk Try
What kind of Christmas present would Jesus ask Santa for?
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Funny Kind Present
Reality is a question of perspective.
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Deep One Liner Perspective Question Reality
Perhaps the story you finish is never the one you begin.
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Beginning End Story Yourself
What’s real and what’s true aren’t necessarily the same.
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Home Necessary Reality True
If you’re offended, it’s your problem.
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Offense Problem Yourself
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
One of the things a writer is for is to say the unsayable, speak the unspeakable and ask difficult questions.
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Difficult Question Stay Talk Writing

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