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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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Salman Rushdie
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: June 19
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Raif Badawi's is an important voice for all of us to hear.
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Doubt, it seems to me, is the central condition of a human being in the twentieth century.
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I grew up falling in love with kind of story, amazing, wonder tale of the East, which if you're a child growing up in India is all around you.And I think one of the gifts it gave me as a writer was this early knowledge that stories are not true.
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I stand with Charlie Hebdo, as we all must, to defend the art of satire.
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When you write, you write out of your best self. Everything else drops away.
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When I was writing The Satanic Verses, if you had asked me about the phenomenon that we all now know as radical Islam, I wouldn't have had much to say. As recently as the mid-1980s, it didn't seem to be a big deal.
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Too many people had spent too long demonizing or totemizing me to listen seriously to what I had to say.
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Originality is dangerous. It challenges, questions, overturns assumptions, unsettles moral codes.
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I have never really thought of myself as a writer about religion. And I think one of the things that happened to me as a result of all that is that I think it did for some people, many people, obscure the kind of writer that I actually am.
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I didn't become a writer to write about me.
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The question I'm always asking myself is: are we masters or victims? Do we make history, or does history make us? Do we shape the world, or are we just shaped by it? The question of do we have agency in our lives or whether we are just passive victims of events is, I think, a great question, and one that I have always tried to ask.
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Not all possibilities are open to us. The world is finite our hopes spill over its rim.
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Nobody wants to read a 600 page book in which the author is fabulous throughout.
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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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We are described into corners, and then we must describe ourselves out of corners.
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