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Rock and roll music - the music of freedom frightens people and unleashes all manner of conservative defense mechanisms.
Salman Rushdie
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Salman Rushdie
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: June 19
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Fundamentalists of all faiths are the fundamental evil of our time.
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If the culture shifts, if people think differently about women, the art will shift, too. You can't ask art to make social change. It's not what it's for.
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There is nothing like a War for the reinvention of lives.
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I don't know what to say about literary critics. I think it's probably best to say nothing.
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You can't assume if you do something contentious that people will be on your side. The moment violence enters the story, the story changes. Then the question is, How do you face up to violence? And then you have to have a no-compromise position. And this is quite simply a lesson we learn in the school playground.
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I have no problem with people's religious beliefs. I just don't happen to have any.
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The mistake of the West was to put the Sauds on the throne of Saudi Arabia and give them control of the world's oil fortune, which they then used to propagate Wahhabi Islam.
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I want to write novels. I want to write stories. I want to do the stuff that I became a writer to do.
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Happy endings must come at the end of something,' the Walrus pointed out. 'If they happen in the middle of a story, or an adventure, or the like, all they do is cheer things up for awhile.
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Human beings understand themselves and shape their futures by arguing and challenging and questioning and saying the un-sayable, not by bowing the knee whether to gods or to men.
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Sometimes, people trying to commit suicide manage it in a manner that leaves them breathless with astonishment.
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And so it is they who, between them, give me all the reasons for believing in none.
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One minute you've got a lucky star watching over you and the next instant it's done a bunk.
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Broad-mindedness is related to tolerance open-mindedness is the sibling of peace.
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Whores and writers, Mahound. We are the people you can't forgive.
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If you take a look at history, you will find that the understanding of what is good and evil has always existed before the individual religions. The religions were only invented by people afterwards, in order to express this idea.
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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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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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Censorship is the thing that stops you doing what you want to do, and what writers want to talk about is what they do, not what stops them doing it.
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