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    “Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself.”
    —Salman Rushdie (b. 1948)

    “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.”
    —Salman Rushdie (b. 1947)

    “of the satanic thistle that raises its horned symmetry
    flowering above sister grass-daisies’ pink tiny
    bloomlets angelic as lightbulbs—”
    —Allen Ginsberg (b. 1926)

    “Some may have blamed you that you took away
    The verses that could move them on the day
    When, the ears being deafened, the sight of the eyes blind
    With lightning, you went from me....”
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)