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Rock n' roll was a kid when I was a kid.

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Salman Rushdie
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: June 19
Actor
Essayist
Novelist
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Bombay
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Joseph Anton
Sir Ahmed Salman Rushdie
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You can't have modern states based on ideas which have been out of date for a thousand years.
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What you were is forever who you are.
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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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We all owe death a life.
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How do you defeat terrorism? Don’t be terrorized.
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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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I want more than what I want. (Vina Apsara)
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The history of a culture can be determined by its untranslatable words.
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Religion, a mediaeval form of unreason, when combined with modern weaponry becomes a real threat to our freedoms.
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We who have grown up on a diet of honour and shame can still grasp what must seem unthinkable to people living in the aftermath of the death of God and of tragedy: that men will sacrifice their dearest love on the implacable altars of their pride.
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I had a very difficult relationship with my father, which ended up okay, but there were many difficult years.
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Children like being a little scared, but they don't want to be disturbed.
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I do not need the idea of God to explain the world I live in.
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The worst, most insidious effect of censorship is that, in the end, it can deaden the imagination of the people. Where there is no debate, it is hard to go on remembering, every day, that there is a suppressed side to every argument.
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I'll tell you what divorce hasn't taught me. It didn't teach me not to get married again.
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Perhaps because my relationship with my father went through such a long, bumpy time, it's been very important for me to work to try to keep lines of communication open between my sons and myself to try to avoid my father's mistakes. At least if you're making mistakes, make different mistakes.
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Life is lived forward but is judged in reverse.
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Of course, there is nothing intrinsic linking any religion with any act of violence. The crusades don't prove that Christianity was violent. The Inquisition doesn't prove that Christianity tortures people. But that Christianity did torture people.
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We are the storytelling animal.
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India, the new myth--a collective fiction in which anything was possible, a fable rivalled only by the two other mighty fantasies: money and God.
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