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Airport security exists to guard us against terrorist attacks.
Salman Rushdie
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Salman Rushdie
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: June 19
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Dissensions between Muslim nations run at least as deep, if not deeper, than those nations' resentment of the West.
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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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He had picked up languages the way most sailors pick up diseases languages were his gonorrhoea, his syphilis, his scurvy, his ague, his plague.
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We are described into corners, and then we must describe ourselves out of corners.
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The history of life was not the bumbling progress - the very English, middle-class progress - Victorian thought had wanted it to be, but violent, a thing of dramatic, cumulative transformations: in the old formulation, more revolution than evolution.
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Writers have been in terrible situations and have yet managed to produce extraordinary work.
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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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Your blasphemy, Salman, can't be forgiven. To set your words against the Words of God.
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England in a way is lucky. It's an island, so the frontiers are given by the sea.
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But love is what we want, not freedom. Who then is the unluckier man? The beloved, who is given his heart's desire and must for ever after fear its loss, or the free man, with his unlooked-for liberty, naked and alone between the captive armies of the earth?
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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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The USA approach looks like bullying because it is.
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Don't you know girls have to fool people every day of their lives if they want to get anywhere?
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Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself.
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One of the things I've thought about 'Midnight's Children' is that it is a novel which puts a Muslim family at the centre of the Indian experience.
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Writers and politicians are natural rivals. Both groups try to make the world in their own images they fight for the same territory.
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American literature has always been immigrant.
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And using that - the birth of a religion, it suggests that you have got two tests. You have the test of weakness. When you're weak, do you compromise, do you bend, do you give in, do you accommodate? And then the test of strength. When you're strong, are you merciful, are you generous, or are you cruel?
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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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Perhaps because my relationship with my father went through such a long, bumpy time, it's been very important for me to work to try to keep lines of communication open between my sons and myself to try to avoid my father's mistakes. At least if you're making mistakes, make different mistakes.
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