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In the movies, the writer is just the servant, the employee.

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Salman Rushdie
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: June 19
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I've never had very high regard for therapists. I owe my health, my mental survival, to my friends and loved ones.
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When thought becomes excessively painful, action is the finest remedy.
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You don't fight radical conservatism with not-quite-so radical conservatism.
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Literature is where I go to explore the highest and lowest places in human society and in the human spirit, where I hope to find not absolute truth but the truth of the tale, of the imagination and of the heart.
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War used to be something you could stand on the nearby hill and watch. Now we have total war everybody's in it. We have total economics as well. Everything affects everybody. The Malaysian currency shakes, and people around the world are seriously affected.
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It may be argued that the past is a country from which we have all emigrated, that its loss is part of our common humanity.
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If love is a yearning to be like (even to become) the beloved, then hatred, it must be said, can be engendered by the same ambition, when it cannot be fulfilled.
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We must agree on what matters: kissing in public places, bacon sandwiches, disagreement, cutting-edge fashion, literature, generosity, water, a more equitable distribution of the world's resources, movies, music, freedom of thought, beauty, love.
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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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I don't think there is a need for an entity like God in my life.
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Peace, perfect peace, in this dark world of sin? The Blood of Jesus whispers peace within.
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Unfortunately, the problem of the free speech argument is that you have to defend people you can't stand.
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In the cookie of life, friends are the chocolate chips.
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I stand with Charlie Hebdo, as we all must, to defend the art of satire.
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There needs to be a thorough examination, by Muslims everywhere, of why it is that the faith they love breeds so many violent mutant strains.
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You don't that often see writers being sought out when there are matters of great moment to discuss. And I think that's a loss.
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The question I'm always asking myself is: are we masters or victims? Do we make history, or does history make us? Do we shape the world, or are we just shaped by it? The question of do we have agency in our lives or whether we are just passive victims of events is, I think, a great question, and one that I have always tried to ask.
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