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What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.
Salman Rushdie
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Salman Rushdie
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: June 19
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I'm definitely post-something.
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Don't you know girls have to fool people every day of their lives if they want to get anywhere?
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Very often, people who actually pick up a book of mine for the first time are kind of surprised. And I get these letters saying, well, who knew that you were good, you know?
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It just requires so much of you, and most of the time you feel dumb.
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Broad-mindedness is related to tolerance open-mindedness is the sibling of peace.
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Khattam-Shud,' he said slowly, 'is the Arch-Enemy of all Stories, even of language itself. He is the Prince of Silence and the Foe of Speech. And because everything ends, because dreams end, stories end, life ends, at the finish of everything we use his name. It's finished, we tell one another, it's over. Khattam-Shud: The End.
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The worst, most insidious effect of censorship is that, in the end, it can deaden the imagination of the people. Where there is no debate, it is hard to go on remembering, every day, that there is a suppressed side to every argument.
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India, the new myth--a collective fiction in which anything was possible, a fable rivalled only by the two other mighty fantasies: money and God.
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In Iran, fundamentalism was fuelled to an extent by the regime of the Shah being supported by the West.
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I'll tell you what divorce hasn't taught me. It didn't teach me not to get married again.
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Ignorantly is how we all fall in love for it is a kind of fall. Closing our eyes, we leap from that cliff in hope of a soft landing. Nor is it always soft but still, without that leap nobody comes to life.
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YouTube is full of pieces of trash. If you want to look on YouTube and find something that insults you, you can probably find it.
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