A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it; or offer your own version in return.
From Salman Rushdie
Most of what matters in your life takes place in your absence.
Be sure that you go to the author to get at his meaning, not to find yours.
Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself.
I do not need the idea of God to explain the world I live in.
When thought becomes excessively painful, action is the finest remedy.
Our lives are not what we deserve; they are, let us agree, in many ways deficient.
If I were asked for a one-sentence sound bite on religion, I would say I was against it.
In this world without quiet corners, there can be no easy escapes from history, from hullabaloo, from terrible, unquiet fuss.
Rock and roll music - the music of freedom frightens people and unleashes all manner of conservative defense mechanisms.
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