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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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A man is sane only to the extent that he subscribes to a previously-agreed construction of reality.
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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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This paranoid Islam, which blames outsider, 'infidels', for all the ills of Muslim societies, and whose proposed remedy is the closing of those societies to the rival project of modernity, is presently the fastest growing version of Islam in the world.
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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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The glamour of being forbidden must not be underestimated.
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All my adult life, if I didn't have several hours a day to sit in a room by myself, I would get antsy and irritable.
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I don't think there is a need for an entity like God in my life.
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I would argue that religion comes from a desire to get to the questions of, 'Where do we come from?' and 'How shall we live?' And I would say I don't need religion to answer those questions.
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