In this world without quiet corners, there can be no easy escapes from history, from hullabaloo, from terrible, unquiet fuss.
Salman Rushdie
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- The idea of the sacred is quite simply one of the most conservative notions in any culture, because it seeks to turn other ideas - uncertainty, progress, change - into crimes.
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- Vertigo is the conflict between the fear of falling and the desire to fall.
- What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.
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