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Stories in families are colossally important. Every family has stories: some funny, some proud, some embarrassing, some shameful. Knowing them is proof of belonging to the family.

Salman Rushdie

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Salman Rushdie
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: June 19
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It seems that the right of freedom of speech that was enshrined in numerous constitutions is now under attack by religious institutions.
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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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I'm no friend of Tony Blair's and I consider the Middle East policies of the United States and the UK fatal.
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The question I'm always asking myself is: are we masters or victims? Do we make history, or does history make us? Do we shape the world, or are we just shaped by it? The question of do we have agency in our lives or whether we are just passive victims of events is, I think, a great question, and one that I have always tried to ask.
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When you throw everything up in the air anything becomes possible.
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As I look back, I feel a touch of pride at my younger self's dedication to literature, which gave him the strength of mind to resist the blandishments of the enemies of promise. The sirens of ad-land sang sweetly and seductively, but I thought of Odysseus lashing himself to the mast of his ship, and somehow stayed on course.
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This paranoid Islam, which blames outsider, 'infidels', for all the ills of Muslim societies, and whose proposed remedy is the closing of those societies to the rival project of modernity, is presently the fastest growing version of Islam in the world.
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She's no flibberti-gibberti mamzell, but a whir-stir-get-lost-sir bundla dynamite!
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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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Vertigo is the conflict between the fear of falling and the desire to fall.
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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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India is my kid sister.
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The only way of living in a free society is to feel that you have the right to say and do stuff.
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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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I fell victim to the temptation of every autobiographer, to the illusion that since the past exists only in one's memories and the words which strive vainly to encapsulate them, it is possible to create past events simply by saying they occurred.
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What you were is forever who you are.
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There is a widespread difficulty in the Muslim world, which has to do with how the people are taught about examining their own history. A whole range of stuff has been placed off limits.
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I remember when I was young, many cities in the Muslim world were cosmopolitan cities with a lot of culture.
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I want more than what I want. (Vina Apsara)
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A sigh isn't just a sigh. We inhale the world and breathe out meaning. While we can. While we can.
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