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If I were asked for a one-sentence sound bite on religion, I would say I was against it.

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Salman Rushdie
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: June 19
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English, no longer an English language, now grows from many roots.
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I've never rejected the world I came from. To be rejected by it is horrible.
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Our lives are not what we deserve they are, let us agree, in many ways deficient.
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Realism can break a writer's heart.
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You don't fight radical conservatism with not-quite-so radical conservatism.
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I don't think I've ever quite grown out of it, actually. There was a point where I could recite some of those Elvish verses - which I've mercifully forgotten. But I can still, if really pushed, recite the text of the inside of the ruling ring in the language of Mordor.
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The West should be tougher on Pakistan. It is trying to play both ends against the middle - to look like the friend of the revolutionaries on the one hand and a friend of the West in the fight against terrorism. It can't be both things.
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When you know what you're against you have taken the first step to discovering what you're for.
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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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Vertigo is the conflict between the fear of falling and the desire to fall.
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