What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.

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Our lives are not what we deserve; they are, let us agree, in many ways deficient.

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The only people who see the whole picture are the ones who step outside the frame.

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If I were asked for a one-sentence sound bite on religion, I would say I was against it.

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Doubt, it seems to me, is the central condition of a human being in the twentieth century.

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Books choose their authors; the act of creation is not entirely a rational and conscious one.

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One of the extraordinary things about human events is that the unthinkable becomes thinkable.

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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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A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it or offer your own version in return.

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A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it; or offer your own version in return.

Salman Rushdie in O Magazine (April 2003)
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