In the cookie of life, friends are the chocolate chips.
SALMAN RUSHDIEBut there’s one thing we must all be clear about: terrorism is not the pursuit of legitimate goals by some sort of illegitimate means. Whatever the murderers may be trying to achieve, creating a better world certainly isn’t one of their goals. Instead they are out to murder innocent people.
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If you’re offended, it’s your problem.
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What one writer can make in the solitude of one room is something no power can easily destroy.
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I have always thought that these two ways of talking, one is the fantastic, the fable, the fairy tale, and the other being history, the scholarly study of what happened, I think they’re both amazing ways to understand human nature.
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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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What’s real and what’s true aren’t necessarily the same.
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From the beginning men used God to justify the unjustifiable.
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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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Reality is a question of perspective.
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Where there is no belief, there is no blasphemy.
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We have come to think of taking offence as a fundamental right. We value very little more highly than our rage, which gives us, in our opinion, the moral high ground. From there we can shoot down at our enemies and inflict heavy fatalities.
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Only the foolish, blinded by language’s conventions, think of fire as red or gold. Fire is blue at it’s melancholy rim, green in it’s envious heart. It may burn white, or even, in it’s greatest rages, black.
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One of the strange things about violent and authoritarian regimes is they don’t like the glare of negative publicity.
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What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.
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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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If somebody’s trying to shut you up, sing louder, and if possible, better.
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