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Salman Rushdie
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: June 19
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Peace, perfect peace, in this dark world of sin? The Blood of Jesus whispers peace within.
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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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It seems that the right of freedom of speech that was enshrined in numerous constitutions is now under attack by religious institutions.
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Hell is other people's fantasies.
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Ideas are interesting to me, and religions are a place where ideas have been very subtly embodied for thousands of years. All literature started as sacred literature.
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Whores and writers, Mahound. We are the people you can't forgive.
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It just requires so much of you, and most of the time you feel dumb.
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I do think there was a period there when my sanity was under intense pressure, and I didn't know what to say or do or how to act. I was literally living from day to day.
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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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Realism can break a writer's heart.
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For me, what I've always seen in writers and artists is the courage it takes to make an original work of art. I think the real risks in literature are linguistic and intellectual, and I hope we can highlight those, as well as political courage.
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My children are English, and both of their mothers were English.
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But there's one thing we must all be clear about: terrorism is not the pursuit of legitimate goals by some sort of illegitimate means. Whatever the murderers may be trying to achieve, creating a better world certainly isn't one of their goals. Instead they are out to murder innocent people.
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One of the reasons my name is Rushdie is that my father was an admirer of Ibn Rush'd, the 12th century Arab philosopher known as Averroes in the West. In his time, he was making the non-literalist case for interpreting the Koran.
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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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If there is a choice between absolute safety and freedom, then freedom must always prevail.
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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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I get a lot of letters - a lot of letters saying, who knew that you were funny?
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A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it or offer your own version in return.
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Can one drown in one's element... If fish can drown in water, can human beings suffocate in air?
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