"Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself."

-- Salman Rushdie

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“In the darkness of your thoughts I would like to be a light.”
“You will know that forgiveness has begun when you recall those who hurt you and feel the power to wish them well.”
“The death sentence is a necessary and efficacious means for the Church to attain its end when rebels act against it and disturbers of the ecclesiastical unity, especially obstinate heretics and heresiarchs, cannot be restrained by any other penalty from continuing to derange the ecclesiastical order and impelling others to all sorts of crime ... When the perversity of one or several is calculated to bring about the ruin of many of its children it is bound effectively to remove it, in such wise that if there be no other remedy for saving its people it can and must put these wicked men to death.”
“A town is saved, not more by the righteous men in it, than by the woods and swamps that surround it.”
“We rehearsed our Scarface to the nines. Long period of rehearsal, so that by the time we started to shoot, it was almost like doing a play. We all had a grand time doing it. It was a wonderful cast.”
“One change always leaves the way open for the establishment of others.”
“Nowadays people think that history is what was on TV last night.”

Source : Michael Dibdin (2008). “Medusa”, p.199, Faber & Faber
“Well, sometimes love seems easy. Like..it's easy to love rain...and hawks. And it's easy to love wild plums...and the moon. But with people, seems like love's a hard thing to know. It gets all mixed up. I mean, you can love one person in one way and another person in another way. But how do you know you love the right one in every way?”

Source : Billie Letts (2001). “Where the Heart Is”, p.211, Hachette UK

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