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Dissensions between Muslim nations run at least as deep, if not deeper, than those nations' resentment of the West.
Salman Rushdie
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Salman Rushdie
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: June 19
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As I look back, I feel a touch of pride at my younger self's dedication to literature, which gave him the strength of mind to resist the blandishments of the enemies of promise. The sirens of ad-land sang sweetly and seductively, but I thought of Odysseus lashing himself to the mast of his ship, and somehow stayed on course.
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Killing people because you don't like their ideas - it's a bad thing.
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The only way of living in a free society is to feel that you have the right to say and do stuff.
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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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As though she had entered a fable, as though she were no more than words crawling along a dry page, or as though she were becoming that page itself, that surface on which her story would be written and across which there blew a hot and merciless wind, turning her body to papyrus, her skin to parchment, her soul to paper.
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I'm definitely post-something.
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Not even the visionary or mystical experience ever lasts very long. It is for art to capture that experience, to offer it to, in the case of literature, its readers to be, for a secular, materialist culture, some sort of replacement for what the love of god offers in the world of faith.
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What can't be cured must be endured.
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I want to write novels. I want to write stories. I want to do the stuff that I became a writer to do.
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In Iran, fundamentalism was fuelled to an extent by the regime of the Shah being supported by the West.
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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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A people that has remained convinced of its greatness and invulnerability, that has chosen to believe such a myth in the face of all the evidence, is a people in the grip of a kind of sleep, or madness.
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Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself.
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One either loves, or waits for love, or banishes love for good. That is the full range of possible choices.
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I will come back to India - so deal with it.
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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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We who have grown up on a diet of honour and shame can still grasp what must seem unthinkable to people living in the aftermath of the death of God and of tragedy: that men will sacrifice their dearest love on the implacable altars of their pride.
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The thing that I think was very brave of my younger self was that he decided he would be an idiot. Just persevere. That feels brave to me: deciding that I'm going to damn well be this person that I've set my heart on being.
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