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Salman Rushdie
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: June 19
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Writers have been in terrible situations and have yet managed to produce extraordinary work.
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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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If by some bizarre chance there turns out to be a god [...], I'm willing to bet he's an atheist too.
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In an ideal world, you could reunite the Pakistan-occupied part of Kashmir with the Indian-occupied part and restore the old borders. You could have both India and Pakistan agreeing to guarantee those borders, demilitarise the area, and to invest in it economically. In a sane world that would happen, but we don't live in a sane world.
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We have come to think of taking offence as a fundamental right. We value very little more highly than our rage, which gives us, in our opinion, the moral high ground. From there we can shoot down at our enemies and inflict heavy fatalities.
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Unfortunately, the problem of the free speech argument is that you have to defend people you can't stand.
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Everything has shape, if you look for it. There is no escape from form.
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If I were dead, then nobody in England would have to fuss about the cost of my security and whether or not I merited such special treatment for so long.
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You start at the stupid end of the book, and if you're lucky you finish at the smart end.
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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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What you were is forever who you are.
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If Woody Allen were a Muslim, he'd be dead by now.
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There's a lot of conflict and darkness inside everybody's family. We all pretend to outsiders that it's not so but behind locked doors there are usually high emotions running.
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If my child had prejudice in his head, I'd be ashamed. I would see it as my failure as a parent.
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Human beings, you see, do absolutely two primary things. We see like and unlike. Like becomes, in literature, simile and metaphor. Unlike becomes uniqueness and difference, from which I believe, the novel is born.
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I didn't become a writer to write about me.
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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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Nobody wants to read a 600 page book in which the author is fabulous throughout.
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Rock n' roll was a kid when I was a kid.
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If love is a yearning to be like (even to become) the beloved, then hatred, it must be said, can be engendered by the same ambition, when it cannot be fulfilled.
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