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I've never had very high regard for therapists. I owe my health, my mental survival, to my friends and loved ones.

Salman Rushdie

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Salman Rushdie
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: June 19
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The USA approach looks like bullying because it is.
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It is very, very easy not to be offended by a book. You just have to shut it.
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Now I know what a ghost is. Unfinished business, that's what.
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A man is sane only to the extent that he subscribes to a previously-agreed construction of reality.
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History could claw upward as well as down. The powerful could be deafened by the cries of the poor.
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The interesting thing about history sometimes. is that you know these people existed, and you knew what jobs they did, but you don't know much about them as people, so you actually have to make them up.
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It's obvious that I come down on the side of free speech for anybody's work.
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One of the things a writer is for is to say the unsayable, speak the unspeakable and ask difficult questions.
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What had been (at the beginning) no bigger than a full stop had expanded into a comma, a word, a sentence, a paragraph, a chapter now it was bursting into more complex developments, becoming, one might say, a book - perhaps an encylopaedia - even a whole language.
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I used to say, 'There is a God-shaped hole in me.' For a long time I stressed the absence, the hole. Now I find it is the shape which has become more important.
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At the height of the British Empire very few English novels were written that dealt with British power. It's extraordinary that at the moment in which England was the global superpower the subject of British power appeared not to interest most writers.
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Reading is a very different thing than performing. In fact, one of the things I think that doesn't work in books on tape is if the person doing the reading acts too much it becomes irritating to you listening to it.
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If the creative artist worries if he will still be free tomorrow, then he will not be free today.
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Peace, perfect peace, in this dark world of sin? The Blood of Jesus whispers peace within.
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I was 21 in 1968, so I'm as much a child of the '60s as is possible to be. In those years the subject of religion had really almost disappeared the idea that religion was going to be a major force in the life of our societies, in the West anyway, would have seemed absurd in 1968.
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We who have grown up on a diet of honour and shame can still grasp what must seem unthinkable to people living in the aftermath of the death of God and of tragedy: that men will sacrifice their dearest love on the implacable altars of their pride.
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I think if we wish to live in any kind of a moral universe, we must hold the perpetrators of violence responsible for the violence they perpetrate. It's very simple. The criminal is responsible for the crime.
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I am certainly not a good Muslim. But I am able now to say that I am Muslim in fact it is a source of happiness to say that I am now inside, and a part of the community whose values have always been closest to my heart.
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If you actually want to change your world, there is a better way of doing it than blowing yourself up.
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