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When you write, you write out of your best self. Everything else drops away.

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Salman Rushdie
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: June 19
Actor
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Sir Ahmed Salman Rushdie
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When you know what you're against you have taken the first step to discovering what you're for.
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Many of us didn't believe in the image of bin Laden as a wandering Old Man of the Mountains, living on plants and insects in an inhospitable cave somewhere on the porous Pakistan-Afghan border.
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One of the strange things about violent and authoritarian regimes is they don't like the glare of negative publicity.
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Too many people had spent too long demonizing or totemizing me to listen seriously to what I had to say.
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I determined to make my peace with Islam, even at the cost of my pride. Those who were surprised and displeased by what I did perhaps failed to see that ... I wanted to make peace between the warring halves of the world, which were also the warring halves of my soul.
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One of the things I've learnt is not to depend on there being a woman in your life to make it work. I love my work, I love my children, I've got wonderful friends, you know, I have a nice life.
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My children are English, and both of their mothers were English.
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When thought becomes excessively painful, action is the finest remedy.
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I remember when I was young, many cities in the Muslim world were cosmopolitan cities with a lot of culture.
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Well, we're still in the middle of it. And it doesn't show any sign of going away. And these attacks that were - that seemed so odd at the time, with Satanic Verses, because we didn't have any context for this. You know, where did that come from? It seemed to come out of nowhere.
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You don't fight radical conservatism with not-quite-so radical conservatism.
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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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Home has become such a scattered, damaged, various concept in our present travails. There is so much to yearn for. There are so few rainbows any more.
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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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Rohinton Mistry's celebrated novel 'Such a Long Journey' was pulled off the syllabus of Mumbai University because local extremists objected to its content.
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It may be argued that the past is a country from which we have all emigrated, that its loss is part of our common humanity.
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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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Ignorantly is how we all fall in love for it is a kind of fall. Closing our eyes, we leap from that cliff in hope of a soft landing. Nor is it always soft but still, without that leap nobody comes to life.
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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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Before I came to England, my favorite authors were P. G. Wodehouse and Agatha Christie. I used to devour both.
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