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I don't like books that play to the gallery, but I've become more concerned with telling a story as clearly and engagingly as I can.
Salman Rushdie
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Salman Rushdie
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: June 19
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I stand with Charlie Hebdo, as we all must, to defend the art of satire, which has always been a force for liberty and against tyranny, dishonesty and stupidity.
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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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In the real world, immeasurable hurt is caused by terrorists based in Pakistan who attack countries like India.
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That's the trouble with you sad-city types: a place has to be miserable and dull as ditchwater before you believe it's real.
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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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Fundamentalists of all faiths are the fundamental evil of our time.
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Peace, perfect peace, in this dark world of sin? The Blood of Jesus whispers peace within.
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The Chinese are good at repression and can be pretty ruthless about it.
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Religion, a mediaeval form of unreason, when combined with modern weaponry becomes a real threat to our freedoms.
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Only the foolish, blinded by language's conventions, think of fire as red or gold. Fire is blue at it's melancholy rim, green in it's envious heart. It may burn white, or even, in it's greatest rages, black.
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Free societies are societies in motion, and with motion comes friction.
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People would come and threaten them. And they would respond by putting the book in the window. Behind that, the publishers, many of whom were menaced and receiving anonymous phone calls of the very menacing kind and so, almost everybody - not everybody, but almost everybody held the line.
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In the cookie of life, friends are the chocolate chips.
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Meaning is a shaky edifice we build out of scraps, dogmas, childhood injuries, newspaper articles, chance remarks, old fillms, small victories, people hated, people loved perhaps it is because our sense of what is the case is constructed from such inadequate materials that we defend it so fiercely, even to death.
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But there's one thing we must all be clear about: terrorism is not the pursuit of legitimate goals by some sort of illegitimate means. Whatever the murderers may be trying to achieve, creating a better world certainly isn't one of their goals. Instead they are out to murder innocent people.
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Khattam-Shud,' he said slowly, 'is the Arch-Enemy of all Stories, even of language itself. He is the Prince of Silence and the Foe of Speech. And because everything ends, because dreams end, stories end, life ends, at the finish of everything we use his name. It's finished, we tell one another, it's over. Khattam-Shud: The End.
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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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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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It is often said by religious people that without its framework, there is no sense of right or wrong. My view is that religion comes after ethics.
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One of the strange things about violent and authoritarian regimes is they don't like the glare of negative publicity.
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