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Salman Rushdie
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: June 19
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And so it is they who, between them, give me all the reasons for believing in none.
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I think anyone who knows me at all knows that I have been a movie addict all my life. I grew up in a city obsessed by cinema and where there are cinemas on every street corner.
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You can adhere to your faith, but that faith needs to march in line with the rest of the world and needs to find a way of expressing itself in the modern world.
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Peace, perfect peace, in this dark world of sin? The Blood of Jesus whispers peace within.
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If you take a look at history, you will find that the understanding of what is good and evil has always existed before the individual religions. The religions were only invented by people afterwards, in order to express this idea.
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Between shame and shamelessness lies the axis upon which we turn meteorological conditions at both these poles are of the most extreme, ferocious type. Shamelessness, shame: the roots of violence.
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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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It's obvious that I come down on the side of free speech for anybody's work.
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I have to say that after some initial resistance, I'm now a complete 'Game of Thrones' addict.
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But love is what we want, not freedom. Who then is the unluckier man? The beloved, who is given his heart's desire and must for ever after fear its loss, or the free man, with his unlooked-for liberty, naked and alone between the captive armies of the earth?
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Religion, a mediaeval form of unreason, when combined with modern weaponry becomes a real threat to our freedoms. This religious totalitarianism has caused a deadly mutation in the heart of Islam and we see the tragic consequences in Paris today.
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Raif Badawi's is an important voice for all of us to hear.
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I think, in a written novel, the way in which you play with the readers' emotion or the way in which you engage the readers' emotions can be very indirect. You could come at it through irony or comedy, etcetera, and you could capture people's sympathies and feelings kind of by stealth if you like.
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In the end, you write the book that grabs you by the throat and demands to be written.
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Things, even people have a way of leaking into each other like flavours when you cook.
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Be sure that you go to the author to get at his meaning, not to find yours.
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I am certainly not a good Muslim. But I am able now to say that I am Muslim in fact it is a source of happiness to say that I am now inside, and a part of the community whose values have always been closest to my heart.
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Children like being a little scared, but they don't want to be disturbed.
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One either loves, or waits for love, or banishes love for good. That is the full range of possible choices.
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Is birth always a fall?
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