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Salman Rushdie
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: June 19
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There needs to be a thorough examination, by Muslims everywhere, of why it is that the faith they love breeds so many violent mutant strains.
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I saw Quentin Tarantino's 'Django Unchained,' and you could say a lot of things against it, but it was incredible fun. I don't like blood and gore and I am very squeamish about violence, but Tarantino's violence is actually funny.
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Two things form the bedrock of any open society - freedom of expression and rule of law. If you don't have those things, you don't have a free country.
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I didn't become a writer to write about me.
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A man who invents himself needs someone to believe in him... Not only the need to be believed in, but the need to believe in another. You've got it: Love.
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A thing that happens to migrants is that they lose many of the traditional things which root identity, which root the self.
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Out-of-step intellectuals like Noam Chomsky and the deceased Edward Said have often been dismissed as crazy extremists, 'anti-American,' and in Mr. Said's case even, absurdly, as apologists for Palestinian 'terrorism.'
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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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I know who I am, I know what I'm for, and I know what I'm willing to fight for.
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Raif Badawi's is an important voice for all of us to hear.
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When thought becomes excessively painful, action is the finest remedy.
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I was 21 in 1968, so I'm as much a child of the '60s as is possible to be. In those years the subject of religion had really almost disappeared the idea that religion was going to be a major force in the life of our societies, in the West anyway, would have seemed absurd in 1968.
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People are always telling me that they've seen people reading my books on the subway, or the beach, or whenever.
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Human beings do not perceive things whole we are not gods but wounded creatures, cracked lenses, capably only of fractured perceptions. Partial beings, in all the senses of that phrase.
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Certainly, the Hollywood cinema, there's almost nothing of interest coming out of there.
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I think it's a very important function of art to challenge accepted reality, especially when that reality is created by powerful interest groups.
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It is very, very easy not to be offended by a book. You just have to shut it.
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What you were is forever who you are.
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I do not need the idea of God to explain the world I live in.
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Whores and writers, Mahound. We are the people you can't forgive.
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