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Killing people because you don't like their ideas - it's a bad thing.
Salman Rushdie
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Salman Rushdie
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: June 19
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What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist. Without the freedom to challenge, even to satirize all orthodoxies, it ceases to exist. Language and the imagination cannot be imprisoned, or art will die, and with it, a little of what makes us human.
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Very often, people who actually pick up a book of mine for the first time are kind of surprised. And I get these letters saying, well, who knew that you were good, you know?
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All names mean something.
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A people that has remained convinced of its greatness and invulnerability, that has chosen to believe such a myth in the face of all the evidence, is a people in the grip of a kind of sleep, or madness.
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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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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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I don't dictate to anyone what to believe and what not to. And I don't want that to be dictated to me either.
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A figure of speech is a shifty thing it can be twisted or it can be straight.
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I saw Quentin Tarantino's 'Django Unchained,' and you could say a lot of things against it, but it was incredible fun. I don't like blood and gore and I am very squeamish about violence, but Tarantino's violence is actually funny.
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From the beginning men used God to justify the unjustifiable.
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You can't have modern states based on ideas which have been out of date for a thousand years.
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My children are English, and both of their mothers were English.
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With death comes honesty.
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Too many people had spent too long demonizing or totemizing me to listen seriously to what I had to say.
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Not even the visionary or mystical experience ever lasts very long. It is for art to capture that experience, to offer it to, in the case of literature, its readers to be, for a secular, materialist culture, some sort of replacement for what the love of god offers in the world of faith.
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Certainly, the Hollywood cinema, there's almost nothing of interest coming out of there.
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Anyone who has had the experience of going through American security checks knows the purpose of these checks is not to make you safer it's just to annoy you.
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Dissensions between Muslim nations run at least as deep, if not deeper, than those nations' resentment of the West.
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The interesting thing about history sometimes. is that you know these people existed, and you knew what jobs they did, but you don't know much about them as people, so you actually have to make them up.
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We were language's magpies by nature, stealing whatever sounded bright and shiny.
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