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If Woody Allen were a Muslim, he'd be dead by now.

Salman Rushdie

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Salman Rushdie
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: June 19
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It doesn't matter whether characters are real people or not if they're not vivid on the page, then the reader doesn't care about them that much, and, if the reader doesn't care about them that much, then they don't care what happens to them.
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I had a very difficult relationship with my father, which ended up okay, but there were many difficult years.
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In this world without quiet corners, there can be no easy escapes from history, from hullabaloo, from terrible, unquiet fuss.
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Such is the miraculous nature of the future of exiles: what is first uttered in the impotence of an overheated apartment becomes the fate of nations.
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I do think that there is such a thing as human nature, and that the things that we have in common are perhaps greater than the things that divide us.
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It's a terrible thing that your life turns into a good story.
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A figure of speech is a shifty thing it can be twisted or it can be straight.
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I think, in a written novel, the way in which you play with the readers' emotion or the way in which you engage the readers' emotions can be very indirect. You could come at it through irony or comedy, etcetera, and you could capture people's sympathies and feelings kind of by stealth if you like.
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Vertigo is the conflict between the fear of falling and the desire to fall.
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What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.
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People must be protected from prejudice against their person. But people cannot be protected from prejudice against their ideas - because otherwise we're all done.
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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'm a reader of Chinese literature, I like their films, but also: I've had great difficulty getting my work published in China very little of it has been published there. The first two attempts to have all of my work published, for instance, were refused without any reason ever being given.
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One of the characteristics of mudslinging is that mud sticks if it's thrown with enough force for long enough.
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Killing people because you don't like their ideas - it's a bad thing.
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I don't think there is a need for an entity like God in my life.
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You can adhere to your faith, but that faith needs to march in line with the rest of the world and needs to find a way of expressing itself in the modern world.
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Something was badly amiss with the spiritual life of the planet...Too many demons inside people claiming to believe in God.
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Certainly, the Hollywood cinema, there's almost nothing of interest coming out of there.
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The First Amendment defends all forms of speech including hate speech, which is why groups like Ku Klux Klan are allowed to utter their poisonous remarks.
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