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Salman Rushdie
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: June 19
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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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The time-honored role of the artist [is] to speak truth to power.
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If I were asked for a one-sentence sound bite on religion, I would say I was against it.
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She's no flibberti-gibberti mamzell, but a whir-stir-get-lost-sir bundla dynamite!
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There needs to be a thorough examination, by Muslims everywhere, of why it is that the faith they love breeds so many violent mutant strains.
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She saw him fracture into rainbow colors through the prism of her love.
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Things, even people have a way of leaking into each other like flavours when you cook.
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Sometimes when you finish a book, you don't know quite what you've got.
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I don't like books that play to the gallery, but I've become more concerned with telling a story as clearly and engagingly as I can.
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Islam is unusual in that it's the only one of the great world religions which was born inside recorded history. That there's an enormous amount of factual historical record about the life of a prophet and about social conditions in Arabia at that time. So it's possible to look at the origin of Islam in a scholarly way.
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It is often said by religious people that without its framework, there is no sense of right or wrong. My view is that religion comes after ethics.
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I don't dictate to anyone what to believe and what not to. And I don't want that to be dictated to me either.
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Something was badly amiss with the spiritual life of the planet...Too many demons inside people claiming to believe in God.
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I've never had very high regard for therapists. I owe my health, my mental survival, to my friends and loved ones.
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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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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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The thing that I think was very brave of my younger self was that he decided he would be an idiot. Just persevere. That feels brave to me: deciding that I'm going to damn well be this person that I've set my heart on being.
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I determined to make my peace with Islam, even at the cost of my pride. Those who were surprised and displeased by what I did perhaps failed to see that ... I wanted to make peace between the warring halves of the world, which were also the warring halves of my soul.
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But I - and I just think it's very - one of the problems of defending the extraordinary principle of freedom of speech is that you have to defend freedom of speech for people like that too.
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I would argue that religion comes from a desire to get to the questions of, 'Where do we come from?' and 'How shall we live?' And I would say I don't need religion to answer those questions.
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