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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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Because I've always felt, whether the fatwa or whatever, the writer's great weapon is the truth and integrity of his voice. And as long as what you're saying is what you truly, honestly believe to be the case, then whatever the consequences, that's fine. That's an honorable position.
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Nobody ever recognizes themselves unless they are not the character. There are many people who have claimed to be in my books, but unfortunately they were usually people that I didn't know.
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Certainly, poverty and economic decline have a lot to do with the so-called rage of Islam. You've got all these young men in countries which are economically in bad shape. The idea that they might be able to make a good living and get married and have a family, a decent life, seems very remote to a lot of people in a lot of the world.
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But I - and I just think it's very - one of the problems of defending the extraordinary principle of freedom of speech is that you have to defend freedom of speech for people like that too.
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The only way of living in a free society is to feel that you have the right to say and do stuff.
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The time-honored role of the artist [is] to speak truth to power.
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It just requires so much of you, and most of the time you feel dumb.
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My heart broke open and history fell in.
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If you have children you worry about the world you're leaving them.
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Too many people had spent too long demonizing or totemizing me to listen seriously to what I had to say.
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A sigh isn't just a sigh. We inhale the world and breathe out meaning. While we can. While we can.
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Hell is other people's fantasies.
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