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When thought becomes excessively painful, action is the finest remedy.
Salman Rushdie
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Salman Rushdie
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: June 19
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A mature society understands that at the heart of democracy is argument.
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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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To understand just one life you have to swallow the world ... do you wonder, then, that I was a heavy child?
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Not even the visionary or mystical experience ever lasts very long. It is for art to capture that experience, to offer it to, in the case of literature, its readers to be, for a secular, materialist culture, some sort of replacement for what the love of god offers in the world of faith.
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A man who catches History's eye is thereafter bound to a mistress from whom he will never escape.
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Sometimes I think that when people become famous, there's a public perception that they are not human beings any more. They don't have feelings they don't get hurt you can act and say as you like about them.
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Your blasphemy, Salman, can't be forgiven. To set your words against the Words of God.
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If I were asked for a one-sentence sound bite on religion, I would say I was against it.
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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.
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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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Most of what matters in your life takes place in your absence.
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I needed my stuff around me, and in that little cocoon I felt good, and I could work.
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Everybody loves 'The Wire,' and I think it's okay, but in the end it's just a police series.
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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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If you're offended, it's your problem.
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I've never rejected the world I came from. To be rejected by it is horrible.
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I stand with Charlie Hebdo, as we all must, to defend the art of satire.
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One either loves, or waits for love, or banishes love for good. That is the full range of possible choices.
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There are two things in Indian history - one is the incredible optimism and potential of the place, and the other is the betrayal of that potential - for example, corruption. Those two strands intertwine through the whole of Indian history, and maybe not just Indian history.
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