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My children are English, and both of their mothers were English.

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Salman Rushdie
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: June 19
Actor
Essayist
Novelist
Screenwriter
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Bombay
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Joseph Anton
Sir Ahmed Salman Rushdie
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Now I know what a ghost is. Unfinished business, that's what.
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The west was involved in toppling the Mossadegh government. That ultimately led to the Iranian revolution.
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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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A sigh isn't just a sigh. We inhale the world and breathe out meaning. While we can. While we can.
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I did a lot of student acting when I was young.
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Can one drown in one's element... If fish can drown in water, can human beings suffocate in air?
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Religion, a mediaeval form of unreason, when combined with modern weaponry becomes a real threat to our freedoms. This religious totalitarianism has caused a deadly mutation in the heart of Islam and we see the tragic consequences in Paris today.
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Free societies are societies in motion, and with motion comes friction.
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There is nothing like a War for the reinvention of lives.
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They lived in a great city, a metropolis of many narratives that converged briefly and then separated for ever, discovering their different dooms in that crowd of stories through which all of us, following our own destinies, had to push and shove to find our way through, or out.
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He had picked up languages the way most sailors pick up diseases languages were his gonorrhoea, his syphilis, his scurvy, his ague, his plague.
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Broad-mindedness is related to tolerance open-mindedness is the sibling of peace.
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I think anyone who knows me at all knows that I have been a movie addict all my life. I grew up in a city obsessed by cinema and where there are cinemas on every street corner.
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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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The PEN/Barbara Goldsmith Freedom to Write Award is a way of spotlighting individual cases. If you look at the history of the award, the freedom rate is very high: a very high percentage of people who receive those awards are freed in the next six months to a year. The only weapon there is attention, but interestingly it works.
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In the end, you write the book that grabs you by the throat and demands to be written.
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If you have children you worry about the world you're leaving them.
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