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It's obvious that I come down on the side of free speech for anybody's work.
Salman Rushdie
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Salman Rushdie
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: June 19
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Because I've always felt, whether the fatwa or whatever, the writer's great weapon is the truth and integrity of his voice. And as long as what you're saying is what you truly, honestly believe to be the case, then whatever the consequences, that's fine. That's an honorable position.
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To understand just one life you have to swallow the world ... do you wonder, then, that I was a heavy child?
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Have you noticed the physical resemblance between Imran Khan and Gaddafi? If you were making a movie of the life of Gaddafi and you wanted a slightly better-looking version of Gaddafi, you might cast Imran Khan.
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India is my kid sister.
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An iceberg is water striving to be land a mountain, especially a Himalaya, especially Everest, is land's attempt to metamorphose into sky it is grounded in flight, the earth mutated--nearly--into air, and become, in the true sense, exalted. Long before she ever encountered the mountain, Allie was aware of its brooding presence in her soul.
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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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Home has become such a scattered, damaged, various concept in our present travails. There is so much to yearn for. There are so few rainbows any more.
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If by some bizarre chance there turns out to be a god [...], I'm willing to bet he's an atheist too.
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India, the new myth--a collective fiction in which anything was possible, a fable rivalled only by the two other mighty fantasies: money and God.
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In the end, you write the book that grabs you by the throat and demands to be written.
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To see things plainly, you have to cross a frontier.
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You can't assume if you do something contentious that people will be on your side. The moment violence enters the story, the story changes. Then the question is, How do you face up to violence? And then you have to have a no-compromise position. And this is quite simply a lesson we learn in the school playground.
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Liberate yourself, because no one else is going to liberate you
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From the beginning men used God to justify the unjustifiable.
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It's a terrible thing that your life turns into a good story.
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Throughout human history, the apostles of purity, those who have claimed to possess a total explanation, have wrought havoc among mere mixed-up human beings.
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The writers of the French enlightenment had deliberately used blasphemy as a weapon, refusing to accept the power of the Church to set limiting points on thought.
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I'm a world expert on superhero comics. I think maybe only Michael Chabon knows more than me.
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Speaking as somebody with three sisters and a very largely female Muslim family, there is not a single woman I know in my family or in their friends who would have accepted the wearing of a veil.
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I seem to have fallen for women with missing parents. Goodness knows what it signifies.
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