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Salman Rushdie
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: June 19
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It is very, very easy not to be offended by a book. You just have to shut it.
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Raif Badawi's is an important voice for all of us to hear.
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I do have a lot of time for people in my life, and friendship is a very important subject for me. I think I'm unusual among the writers I know in that respect.
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To be born again,' sang Gibreal Farishta tumbling from the heaveans, 'first you have to die. Ho ji! Ho ji! To land upon the bosomy earth, first one needs to fly Tat-taa! Takatun! How to ever smile again, if first you won't cry? How to win the darling's love mister, without a sigh?
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I will come back to India - so deal with it.
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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 believe in the art of literature, I believe in freedom of the imagination, I believe in the kind of liberties that we enjoy in these lucky countries of the world.
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If I were dead, then nobody in England would have to fuss about the cost of my security and whether or not I merited such special treatment for so long.
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Well, we're still in the middle of it. And it doesn't show any sign of going away. And these attacks that were - that seemed so odd at the time, with Satanic Verses, because we didn't have any context for this. You know, where did that come from? It seemed to come out of nowhere.
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The idea of the sacred is quite simply one of the most conservative notions in any culture, because it seeks to turn other ideas - uncertainty, progress, change - into crimes.
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Sometimes great, banned works defy the censor's description and impose themselves on the world - 'Ulysses,' 'Lolita,' the 'Arabian Nights.'
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The way you write a screenplay is that you close your eyes and run the movie in your head and then you write it down.
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Writers and politicians are natural rivals. Both groups try to make the world in their own images they fight for the same territory.
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Once you put a thought into the world, it can be disagreed with, but it can't be unthought.
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Because I've always felt, whether the fatwa or whatever, the writer's great weapon is the truth and integrity of his voice. And as long as what you're saying is what you truly, honestly believe to be the case, then whatever the consequences, that's fine. That's an honorable position.
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I know who I am, I know what I'm for, and I know what I'm willing to fight for.
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In Iran, fundamentalism was fuelled to an extent by the regime of the Shah being supported by the West.
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We have come to think of taking offence as a fundamental right. We value very little more highly than our rage, which gives us, in our opinion, the moral high ground. From there we can shoot down at our enemies and inflict heavy fatalities.
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What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.
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If you're offended, it's your problem.
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