“Nobody has the right to not be offended. That right doesn't exist in any declaration I have ever read.
"If you are offended it is your problem, and frankly lots of things offend lots of people.
"I can walk into a bookshop and point out a number of books that I find very unattractive in what they say. But it doesn't occur to me to burn the bookshop down. If you don't like a book, read another book. If you start reading a book and you decide you don't like it, nobody is telling you to finish it.
"To read a 600-page novel and then say that it has deeply offended you: well, you have done a lot of work to be offended.” ― Salman Rushdie
Found on Goodreads at https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/3299.Salman_Rushdie.
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