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Sometimes great, banned works defy the censor's description and impose themselves on the world - 'Ulysses,' 'Lolita,' the 'Arabian Nights.'
Salman Rushdie
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Salman Rushdie
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: June 19
Actor
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Novelist
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Bombay
Rushdie
Joseph Anton
Sir Ahmed Salman Rushdie
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Ulysses
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Arabian
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Nights
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Lolita
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I grew up in a family in which there was very little religion. My father wasn't religious at all. But he was really interested in the subject of, you know, the birth and growth of Islam. And he basically transmitted that interest to me.
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You never know the answers to the questions of life until you are asked.
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The West should be tougher on Pakistan. It is trying to play both ends against the middle - to look like the friend of the revolutionaries on the one hand and a friend of the West in the fight against terrorism. It can't be both things.
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I discovered that if you find the language to talk to younger readers, children can accept anything.
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I seem to have fallen for women with missing parents. Goodness knows what it signifies.
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It just requires so much of you, and most of the time you feel dumb.
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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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Sometimes you find your voice by trying to write like people, and sometimes you find it by trying to write unlike people.
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People must be protected from prejudice against their person. But people cannot be protected from prejudice against their ideas - because otherwise we're all done.
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The Chinese are good at repression and can be pretty ruthless about it.
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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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Human beings, you see, do absolutely two primary things. We see like and unlike. Like becomes, in literature, simile and metaphor. Unlike becomes uniqueness and difference, from which I believe, the novel is born.
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I don't read my books, I write them. Once I've finished the many years it usually takes me to write them, I can't bear to read them, because I've spent too long with them already. I'm not advertising them very well, am I?
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Rock n' roll was a kid when I was a kid.
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If there were Israeli attacks on Iranian nuclear facilities, it makes it certain there would be a reprisal attack against the United States at some point.
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Language upon a silvered tongue affords enchantment enough.
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My love for Dan Brown knows no bounds. It literally has no mass.
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