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"I defend both the freedom of expression and society's right to counter it. I must pay the price for differing. It is the natural way of things."
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"Though the earth contains greater energy and mass than any single being, linked together, "people make the world go-round"."
"Why, because an author has more rights than ordinary people, as everybody knows. People will stand much more from him."
"Society has a herd psychology, so until we have more good shepherds we are lost."
"Why have your followers all drawn their swords, may I ask?" said Aslan."May it please Your High Majesty," said the second Mouse, whose name was Peepiceek, "we are all waiting to cut off our own tails if our Chief must go without his. We will not bear the shame of wearing an honor which is denied to the High Mouse.""Ah!" roared Aslan. "You have conquered me. You have great hearts. Not for the sake of your dignity, Reepicheep, but for the love that is between you and your people, and still more for the kindness your people showed me long ago when you ate away the cords that bound me on the Stone Table (and it was then, though you have long forgotten it, that you began to be Talking Mice), you shall have your tail again."
"We are living in glorious days where each readers' voice can be heard."
"If we in Nigeria and Africa generally are to experience a true national transformation, we must purposefully begin a campaign for national reorientation."
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"I was reading a lot of books I admired, and thought that I would like to write something like that someday."
"I believe society has a right to defend itself, just as the individual has the right to attack that with which he disagrees."
"The Nobel Prize has given me, for the first time in my life, the feeling that my literature could be appreciated on an international level."
"One effect that the Nobel Prize seems to have had is that more Arabic literary works have been translated into other languages."
"I accepted the interviews and encounters that had to be held with the media, but I would have preferred to work in peace."
"I was suffering from a peculiar and persistent sense that I was being pursued, and also the conviction that under the political order of the times, our lives had no meaning."
"The Koran and the laws of all civilized nations legislate against the vilification of religions."
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