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

    “A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it; or offer your own version in return.”
    —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)

    “Let us eat and drink; for tomorrow we shall die.”
    —Bible: Hebrew Isaiah, 22:13.

    Almost the same words are found in 1 Corinthians 15:32, and both verses are frequently confused with Ecclesiastes 8:15: “A man hath no better thing under the sun, than to eat, and to drink, and to be merry.”