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People must be protected from prejudice against their person. But people cannot be protected from prejudice against their ideas - because otherwise we're all done.
Salman Rushdie
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Salman Rushdie
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: June 19
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I don't think there is a need for an entity like God in my life.
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Make as much racket as you like people. Noise is life and an excess of noise is a sign that life is good. There will be time for us all to be quiet when we are safely dead.
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Can one drown in one's element... If fish can drown in water, can human beings suffocate in air?
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Some people are paralyzed by the consciousness of death, other people live with it.... The fatwa certainly made me think about it a lot more than I ever had. I guess I know I'm going to die, but then, so are you.
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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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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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Free-form games in which the player can make choices about what the game is going to be, become a kind of gaming equivalent of the narrative possibility.
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I have no problem with people's religious beliefs. I just don't happen to have any.
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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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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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India, the new myth--a collective fiction in which anything was possible, a fable rivalled only by the two other mighty fantasies: money and God.
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optimism is a disease
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When you throw everything up in the air anything becomes possible.
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I saw Quentin Tarantino's 'Django Unchained,' and you could say a lot of things against it, but it was incredible fun. I don't like blood and gore and I am very squeamish about violence, but Tarantino's violence is actually funny.
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