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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.

Salman Rushdie

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Salman Rushdie
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: June 19
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‘Respect for religion’ has become a code phrase meaning ‘fear of religion.’ Religions, like all other ideas, deserve criticism, satire, and, yes, our fearless disrespect.
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If you were standing next to the prophet on the mountain, would you have seen the archangel? And my answer to that was probably not, even though it's supposed to be a really big archangel. He describes it as - the Archangel Gabriel as standing on the horizon and filling the sky. That's a big angel.
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The Christian Coalition is still about Christianity, even if it's an idea of Christianity that many Christians might not go along with.
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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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I'll tell you what divorce hasn't taught me. It didn't teach me not to get married again.
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Liberate yourself, because no one else is going to liberate you
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Broad-mindedness is related to tolerance open-mindedness is the sibling of peace.
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Make as much racket as you like people. Noise is life and an excess of noise is a sign that life is good. There will be time for us all to be quiet when we are safely dead.
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We were language's magpies by nature, stealing whatever sounded bright and shiny.
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optimism is a disease
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It doesn't matter whether characters are real people or not if they're not vivid on the page, then the reader doesn't care about them that much, and, if the reader doesn't care about them that much, then they don't care what happens to them.
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We live in an age where the rate of change has been colossal. Colossal. Almost every week there's some transformation of some kind, whether technological or political or scientific, whatever. And I think it's bewildering to human beings to live in a time when they can't take anything as fixed - when everything is shifting and changing all the time.
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Don't you know girls have to fool people every day of their lives if they want to get anywhere?
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Sometimes I think that when people become famous, there's a public perception that they are not human beings any more. They don't have feelings they don't get hurt you can act and say as you like about them.
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It's obvious that I come down on the side of free speech for anybody's work.
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[My work] is a love song to our mongrel selves.
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I did a lot of student acting when I was young.
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Certainly, poverty and economic decline have a lot to do with the so-called rage of Islam. You've got all these young men in countries which are economically in bad shape. The idea that they might be able to make a good living and get married and have a family, a decent life, seems very remote to a lot of people in a lot of the world.
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One of the things I've learnt is not to depend on there being a woman in your life to make it work. I love my work, I love my children, I've got wonderful friends, you know, I have a nice life.
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