Life is a very orderly thing but in fiction there is a huge liberation and freedom. I can do what I like. There's nothing that says I can't write a page of full stops. There is no 'should' involved although you wouldn't know that from literary reviews and critics.
Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose.
We who officially value freedom of speech above life itself seem to have nothing to talk about but the weather.
I have no choice about whether or not I have Parkinson's. I have nothing but choices about how I react to it. In those choices there's freedom to do a lot of things in areas that I wouldn't have otherwise found myself in.
The liberals think government exists to fix what's wrong with America. They find fault with our Constitution our economic model and our core values. We disagree with the premise of their argument. We believe there's nothing wrong with America that an extra dose of freedom won't cure.
Who is more to be pitied a writer bound and gagged by policemen or one living in perfect freedom who has nothing more to say?
There is only one kind of freedom and that's individual liberty. Our lives come from our creator and our liberty comes from our creator. It has nothing to do with government granting it.
Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride.
You cannot parcel out freedom in pieces because freedom is all or nothing.
In America through pressure of conformity there is freedom of choice but nothing to choose from.