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You don't that often see writers being sought out when there are matters of great moment to discuss. And I think that's a loss.
Salman Rushdie
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Salman Rushdie
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: June 19
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Reading is a very different thing than performing. In fact, one of the things I think that doesn't work in books on tape is if the person doing the reading acts too much it becomes irritating to you listening to it.
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YouTube is full of pieces of trash. If you want to look on YouTube and find something that insults you, you can probably find it.
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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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Free societies...are societies in motion, and with motion comes tension, dissent, friction. Free people strike sparks, and those sparks are the best evidence of freedom's existence.
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Dissensions between Muslim nations run at least as deep, if not deeper, than those nations' resentment of the West.
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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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Airport security exists to guard us against terrorist attacks.
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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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My children are English, and both of their mothers were English.
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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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Writers have been in terrible situations and have yet managed to produce extraordinary work.
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I'm not a prophet, but I always thought it was natural for dictatorships to fall. I remember in 1989, two months before the fall of the Berlin Wall, had you said it was going to happen no one would have believed you. The system seemed powerful and unbreakable. Suddenly overnight it blew away like dust.
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When you throw everything up in the air anything becomes possible.
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If there is a choice between absolute safety and freedom, then freedom must always prevail.
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