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Once you put a thought into the world, it can be disagreed with, but it can’t be unthought.

Salman Rushdie

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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Freedom People Talk Thinking Voice
I didn’t become a writer to write about me.
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Myself Writing
We are the storytelling animal.
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Animal Story Talk
What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.
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Existence Expression Freedom Offense
Between the adored and the adorer falls the shadow.
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Admire Fall Fame Shadow
My horizon’s have shrunk and I have only endings to write.
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End Limitation Myself Restriction Write
How do you defeat terrorism? Don’t be terrorized.
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Deep Defeat Fear Terrorism Yourself
Perhaps the story you finish is never the one you begin.
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Beginning End Story Yourself
We all owe death a life.
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Death Life One Liner
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
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
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
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
Religion is responsible for a lot of the problems in the history of the world and it’s not something that I practice or recommend, but to each his own.
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History Kind Man Problem Religion Responsible
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.
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Art Celebration Different Dreams Law Mythology Society Song Wake Up
Those who do not have power over the story that dominates their lives, power to retell it, to rethink it, deconstruct it, joke about it, and change it as times change, truly are powerless, because they cannot think new thoughts.
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Change Domination Live Power Story Thinking Time True

Once you put a thought into the world, it can be disagreed with, but it can’t be unthought.

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