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Before I came to England, my favorite authors were P. G. Wodehouse and Agatha Christie. I used to devour both.

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Salman Rushdie
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: June 19
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The worst, most insidious effect of censorship is that, in the end, it can deaden the imagination of the people. Where there is no debate, it is hard to go on remembering, every day, that there is a suppressed side to every argument.
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Religion, a mediaeval form of unreason, when combined with modern weaponry becomes a real threat to our freedoms. This religious totalitarianism has caused a deadly mutation in the heart of Islam and we see the tragic consequences in Paris today.
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Now I know what a ghost is. Unfinished business, that's what.
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Nobody wants to read a 600 page book in which the author is fabulous throughout.
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We live in an age where the rate of change has been colossal. Colossal. Almost every week there's some transformation of some kind, whether technological or political or scientific, whatever. And I think it's bewildering to human beings to live in a time when they can't take anything as fixed - when everything is shifting and changing all the time.
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Killing people because you don't like their ideas - it's a bad thing.
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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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I'm a world expert on superhero comics. I think maybe only Michael Chabon knows more than me.
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And so it is they who, between them, give me all the reasons for believing in none.
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I'm no friend of Tony Blair's and I consider the Middle East policies of the United States and the UK fatal.
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I always thought storytelling was like juggling [...] You keep a lot of different tales in the air, and juggle them up and down, and if you're good you don't drop any.
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What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.
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There are two things in Indian history - one is the incredible optimism and potential of the place, and the other is the betrayal of that potential - for example, corruption. Those two strands intertwine through the whole of Indian history, and maybe not just Indian history.
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