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Salman Rushdie
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: June 19
Actor
Essayist
Novelist
Screenwriter
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I always thought the front line was the bookstores. And bookstores around America, around the world did astonishingly well. They held the line. They didn't chicken out. You know, they defended the book. They kept it in the front of the store.
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The answer to religion is not no religion, but another way of thinking of it. Another way of being in it.
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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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Writers and politicians are natural rivals. Both groups try to make the world in their own images they fight for the same territory.
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The Republicans were not always insane. They might've had politics I didn't agree with, but they weren't always actually certifiable.
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How do you defeat terrorism? Don’t be terrorized.
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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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Realism can break a writer's heart.
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I grew up kissing books and bread.
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My children are English, and both of their mothers were English.
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What had been (at the beginning) no bigger than a full stop had expanded into a comma, a word, a sentence, a paragraph, a chapter now it was bursting into more complex developments, becoming, one might say, a book - perhaps an encylopaedia - even a whole language.
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Religion, a mediaeval form of unreason, when combined with modern weaponry becomes a real threat to our freedoms.
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Now I know what a ghost is. Unfinished business, that's what.
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If there is a choice between absolute safety and freedom, then freedom must always prevail.
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We must conclude that it is not only a particular political ideology that has failed, but the idea that men and women could ever define themselves in terms that exclude their spiritual needs.
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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 I were asked for a one-sentence sound bite on religion, I would say I was against it.
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Many of us didn't believe in the image of bin Laden as a wandering Old Man of the Mountains, living on plants and insects in an inhospitable cave somewhere on the porous Pakistan-Afghan border.
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Sometimes legends make reality, and become more useful than the facts.
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Ignorantly is how we all fall in love for it is a kind of fall. Closing our eyes, we leap from that cliff in hope of a soft landing. Nor is it always soft but still, without that leap nobody comes to life.
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