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Salman Rushdie
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: June 19
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In the real world, immeasurable hurt is caused by terrorists based in Pakistan who attack countries like India.
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Free societies are societies in motion, and with motion comes friction.
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The First Amendment defends all forms of speech including hate speech, which is why groups like Ku Klux Klan are allowed to utter their poisonous remarks.
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I have never really thought of myself as a writer about religion. And I think one of the things that happened to me as a result of all that is that I think it did for some people, many people, obscure the kind of writer that I actually am.
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There is nothing like a War for the reinvention of lives.
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Is birth always a fall?
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There is no magic on earth strong enough to wipe out the legacies of one's parents.
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It may be that the books that were best liked in your lifetime are not the ones that are best liked 100 years later.
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I have been a film buff all my life and believe that the finest cinema is fully the equal of the best novels.
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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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There is a widespread difficulty in the Muslim world, which has to do with how the people are taught about examining their own history. A whole range of stuff has been placed off limits.
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All my adult life, if I didn't have several hours a day to sit in a room by myself, I would get antsy and irritable.
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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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When you write, you write out of your best self. Everything else drops away.
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I do not read the works of Salman Rushdie, I write them. By the time I have finished writing them all I can think of is never reading them again. It's so deep, your involvement with a book, that once it's finished, then you are really done with it.
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I think the veil is a way of taking power away from women.
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Make as much racket as you like people. Noise is life and an excess of noise is a sign that life is good. There will be time for us all to be quiet when we are safely dead.
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Islam is unusual in that it's the only one of the great world religions which was born inside recorded history. That there's an enormous amount of factual historical record about the life of a prophet and about social conditions in Arabia at that time. So it's possible to look at the origin of Islam in a scholarly way.
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Doubt, it seems to me, is the central condition of a human being in the twentieth century.
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The liveliness of literature lies in its exceptionality, in being the individual, idiosyncratic vision of one human being, in which, to our delight and great surprise, we may find our own vision reflected.
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