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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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Broad-mindedness is related to tolerance open-mindedness is the sibling of peace.
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I am certainly not a good Muslim. But I am able now to say that I am Muslim in fact it is a source of happiness to say that I am now inside, and a part of the community whose values have always been closest to my heart.
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I'm a novelist. Fortunately I don't have to rule the world.
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My love for Dan Brown knows no bounds. It literally has no mass.
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Life is elsewhere. Cross frontiers. Fly away.
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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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If you take a look at history, you will find that the understanding of what is good and evil has always existed before the individual religions. The religions were only invented by people afterwards, in order to express this idea.
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A thing that happens to migrants is that they lose many of the traditional things which root identity, which root the self.
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In this world without quiet corners, there can be no easy escapes from history, from hullabaloo, from terrible, unquiet fuss.
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Out-of-step intellectuals like Noam Chomsky and the deceased Edward Said have often been dismissed as crazy extremists, 'anti-American,' and in Mr. Said's case even, absurdly, as apologists for Palestinian 'terrorism.'
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The worst, most insidious effect of censorship is that, in the end, it can deaden the imagination of the people. Where there is no debate, it is hard to go on remembering, every day, that there is a suppressed side to every argument.
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