If you live in free countries, you don't have to spend all your life a…

Salman Rushdie
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If you live in free countries, you don't have to spend all your life arguing about freedom because it is all around you. It seems redundant to make a lot of noise about something when, in fact, there it is. But if someone tries to remove it, it becomes important for you to formulate your own defenses of it. ✨ The Iconoclast. Interview with Shikha Dalmia, reason.com. August/September 2005.
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