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Salman Rushdie

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Salman Rushdie
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: June 19
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Bombay
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Sir Ahmed Salman Rushdie
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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 answer to religion is not no religion, but another way of thinking of it. Another way of being in it.
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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 get a lot of letters - a lot of letters saying, who knew that you were funny?
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If you have children you worry about the world you're leaving them.
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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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Hell is other people's fantasies.
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Religion is responsible for a lot of the problems in the history of the world and it's not something that I practice or recommend, but to each his own.
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I hate admitting that my enemies have a point.
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Free societies are societies in motion, and with motion comes friction.
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I do think of Bombay as my hometown. Those are the streets I walked when I was learning to walk. And it's the place that my imagination has returned to more than anywhere else.
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perhaps, if one wishes to remain an individual in the midst of the teeming multitudes, one must make oneself grotesque.
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Life is elsewhere. Cross frontiers. Fly away.
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