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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.

Salman Rushdie

If you’re offended, it’s your problem.
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Offense Problem Yourself
Where there is no belief, there is no blasphemy.
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Belief One Liner
Once you put a thought into the world, it can be disagreed with, but it can’t be unthought.
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Thinking World Yourself
I admit it: above all things, I fear absurdity.
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Fear Mad Myself Weird
Masks beneath masks until suddenly the bare bloodless skull.
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Blood Head Hide Mask
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
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.
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Country Expression Freedom Law Rule Society
You can find shame in every house, burning in an ashtray, hanging framed upon a wall, covering a bed. But nobody notices it any more.
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Bed Frame Hang Home Notice Shame Wall
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
The world, somebody wrote, is the place we prove real by dying in it.
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Death Place Reality World
For every snake, there is a ladder; for every ladder, a snake.
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Advice Game Ladder Life Snake
Stories in families are colossally important. Every family has stories: some funny, some proud, some embarrassing, some shameful. Knowing them is proof of belonging to the family.
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Evidence Family Funny Important Shame Story
From the beginning men used God to justify the unjustifiable.
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Beginning God Justice Man People
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
Reality is a question of perspective.
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Deep One Liner Perspective Question Reality
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

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