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Look at history. It's not the account of a species at peace.
Salman Rushdie
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Salman Rushdie
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: June 19
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Once you get that instinct for the fictiveness, the fictionality of fiction, it kind of sets you free.
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Sometimes, people trying to commit suicide manage it in a manner that leaves them breathless with astonishment.
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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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The accidents of my life have given me the ability to make stories in which different parts of the world are brought together, sometimes harmoniously, sometimes in conflict, and sometimes both - usually both. The difficulty in these stories is that if you write about everywhere you can end up writing about nowhere.
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If you're offended, it's your problem.
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At the height of the British Empire very few English novels were written that dealt with British power. It's extraordinary that at the moment in which England was the global superpower the subject of British power appeared not to interest most writers.
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I for one don't need a supreme sacred arbiter in order to be a moral being.
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We are the storytelling animal.
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How do you defeat terrorism? Don’t be terrorized.
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We must conclude that it is not only a particular political ideology that has failed, but the idea that men and women could ever define themselves in terms that exclude their spiritual needs.
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I hate admitting that my enemies have a point.
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I was 21 in 1968, so I'm as much a child of the '60s as is possible to be. In those years the subject of religion had really almost disappeared the idea that religion was going to be a major force in the life of our societies, in the West anyway, would have seemed absurd in 1968.
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Ignorantly is how we all fall in love for it is a kind of fall. Closing our eyes, we leap from that cliff in hope of a soft landing. Nor is it always soft but still, without that leap nobody comes to life.
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Bread and books: food for the body and food for the soul - what could be more worthy of our respect, and even love?
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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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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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My children are English, and both of their mothers were English.
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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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Nobody wants to read a 600 page book in which the author is fabulous throughout.
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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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