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Salman Rushdie
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: June 19
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If Woody Allen were a Muslim, he'd be dead by now.
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The First Amendment defends all forms of speech including hate speech, which is why groups like Ku Klux Klan are allowed to utter their poisonous remarks.
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Unfortunately, the problem of the free speech argument is that you have to defend people you can't stand.
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When thought becomes excessively painful, action is the finest remedy.
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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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A mature society understands that at the heart of democracy is argument.
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One of the characteristics of mudslinging is that mud sticks if it's thrown with enough force for long enough.
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A people that has remained convinced of its greatness and invulnerability, that has chosen to believe such a myth in the face of all the evidence, is a people in the grip of a kind of sleep, or madness.
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That's the trouble with you sad-city types: a place has to be miserable and dull as ditchwater before you believe it's real.
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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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I'm not a big fan of there being voiceovers in movies. I really prefer it when the film tells it story.
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Five mysteries hold the keys to the unseen: the act of love, and the birth of a baby, and the contemplation of great art, and being in the presence of death or disaster, and hearing the human voice lifted in song.
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If my child had prejudice in his head, I'd be ashamed. I would see it as my failure as a parent.
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The only privilege literature deserves - and this privilege it requires in order to exist - is the privilege of being in the arena of discourse, the place where the struggle of our languages can be acted out.
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Our lives are not what we deserve they are, let us agree, in many ways deficient.
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For a fellow who's not to much to look at, you have the instincts of a champion.
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If you give in to the threat of violence, if you give in to bullying, what you know is that there will be more bullying. There will not be less bullying. If you appease the bully, you make sure that he will bully you some more. Not less. It doesn't solve the problem. It makes the problem worse.
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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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Most of what matters in your life takes place in your absence.
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There is nothing like a War for the reinvention of lives.
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