In the waking dreams our societies permit, in our myths, our arts, our songs, we celebrate the nonbelongers, the different ones, the outlaws, the freaks.
SALMAN RUSHDIEIf 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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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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If somebody’s trying to shut you up, sing louder, and if possible, better.
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If you actually want to change your world, there is a better way of doing it than blowing yourself up.
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We cannot allow religious hooligans to place limiting points on thought.
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Even when things are at their worst, there’s a little voice in your head saying, ‘Good story!’
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Masks beneath masks until suddenly the bare bloodless skull.
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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.
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Too many people spouting too many words, and in the end those words will turn to bullets and stones.
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We were language’s magpies by nature, stealing whatever sounded bright and shiny.
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It matters, it always matters, to name rubbish as rubbish; that to do otherwise is to legitimize it.
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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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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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Our lives, our stories, flowed into one another’s, were no longer our own, individual, discrete.
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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.
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It is very, very easy not to be offended by a book. You just have to shut it.
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