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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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But there's one thing we must all be clear about: terrorism is not the pursuit of legitimate goals by some sort of illegitimate means. Whatever the murderers may be trying to achieve, creating a better world certainly isn't one of their goals. Instead they are out to murder innocent people.
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Stories in families are colossally important. Every family has stories: some funny, some proud, some embarrassing, some shameful. Knowing them is proof of belonging to the family.
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We were language's magpies by nature, stealing whatever sounded bright and shiny.
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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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If a birth is the fall-out from the explosion caused by the union of two unstable elements, then perhaps a half-life is all we can expect.
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When you throw everything up in the air anything becomes possible.
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I remember when I was young, many cities in the Muslim world were cosmopolitan cities with a lot of culture.
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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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I think the veil is a way of taking power away from women.
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I don't think there is a need for an entity like God in my life.
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Even the Islam stuff I thought was pretty respectful about Islam in a funny way. I mean, yes, from a secular point of view, but it talks about the birth of this religion, and I thought it was pretty admiring of the person at the center of it, the prophet of Islam.
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Things, even people have a way of leaking into each other like flavours when you cook.
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Life is lived forward but is judged in reverse.
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If you actually want to change your world, there is a better way of doing it than blowing yourself up.
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American literature has always been immigrant.
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I do not read the works of Salman Rushdie, I write them. By the time I have finished writing them all I can think of is never reading them again. It's so deep, your involvement with a book, that once it's finished, then you are really done with it.
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In the real world, immeasurable hurt is caused by terrorists based in Pakistan who attack countries like India.
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The real risks for any artist are taken in pushing the work to the limits of what is possible, in the attempt to increase the sum of what it is possible to think. Books become good when they go to this edge and risk falling over it -when they endanger the artist by reason of what he has, or has not, artistically dared.
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I am gagged and imprisoned. I can't even speak. I want to kick a football in a park with my son. Ordinary, banal life: my impossible dream.
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It may be that the books that were best liked in your lifetime are not the ones that are best liked 100 years later.
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