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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
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Salman Rushdie
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: June 19
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Your blasphemy, Salman, can't be forgiven. To set your words against the Words of God.
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Make as much racket as you like people. Noise is life and an excess of noise is a sign that life is good. There will be time for us all to be quiet when we are safely dead.
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An iceberg is water striving to be land a mountain, especially a Himalaya, especially Everest, is land's attempt to metamorphose into sky it is grounded in flight, the earth mutated--nearly--into air, and become, in the true sense, exalted. Long before she ever encountered the mountain, Allie was aware of its brooding presence in her soul.
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One of the reasons my name is Rushdie is that my father was an admirer of Ibn Rush'd, the 12th century Arab philosopher known as Averroes in the West. In his time, he was making the non-literalist case for interpreting the Koran.
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I for one don't need a supreme sacred arbiter in order to be a moral being.
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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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But love is what we want, not freedom. Who then is the unluckier man? The beloved, who is given his heart's desire and must for ever after fear its loss, or the free man, with his unlooked-for liberty, naked and alone between the captive armies of the earth?
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Bin Laden was born filthy rich and died in a rich man's house, which he had painstakingly built to the highest specifications.
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