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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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Most of what matters in your life takes place in your absence.
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Certainly, poverty and economic decline have a lot to do with the so-called rage of Islam. You've got all these young men in countries which are economically in bad shape. The idea that they might be able to make a good living and get married and have a family, a decent life, seems very remote to a lot of people in a lot of the world.
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We must conclude that it is not only a particular political ideology that has failed, but the idea that men and women could ever define themselves in terms that exclude their spiritual needs.
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The novel does not seek to establish a privileged language but it insists upon the freedom to portray and analyze the struggle between the different contestants for such privileges.
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Like everybody else, I've had relationships in which I was passionately in love but was completely miserable all the time and didn't trust the person I was in love with one inch.
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Be sure that you go to the author to get at his meaning, not to find yours.
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Whores and writers, Mahound. We are the people you can't forgive.
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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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I'll tell you what divorce hasn't taught me. It didn't teach me not to get married again.
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Bin Laden was born filthy rich and died in a rich man's house, which he had painstakingly built to the highest specifications.
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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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Throughout human history, the apostles of purity, those who have claimed to possess a total explanation, have wrought havoc among mere mixed-up human beings.
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Not all possibilities are open to us. The world is finite our hopes spill over its rim.
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I want more than what I want. (Vina Apsara)
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He had picked up languages the way most sailors pick up diseases languages were his gonorrhoea, his syphilis, his scurvy, his ague, his plague.
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Sometimes legends make reality, and become more useful than the facts.
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