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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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I do not need the idea of God to explain the world I live in.
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Free societies are societies in motion, and with motion comes friction.
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I determined to make my peace with Islam, even at the cost of my pride. Those who were surprised and displeased by what I did perhaps failed to see that ... I wanted to make peace between the warring halves of the world, which were also the warring halves of my soul.
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I do think that there is such a thing as human nature, and that the things that we have in common are perhaps greater than the things that divide us.
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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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Now I know what a ghost is. Unfinished business, that's what.
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The Republicans were not always insane. They might've had politics I didn't agree with, but they weren't always actually certifiable.
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Like everybody else, I've had relationships in which I was passionately in love but was completely miserable all the time and didn't trust the person I was in love with one inch.
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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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I think, in a written novel, the way in which you play with the readers' emotion or the way in which you engage the readers' emotions can be very indirect. You could come at it through irony or comedy, etcetera, and you could capture people's sympathies and feelings kind of by stealth if you like.
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