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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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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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How do you defeat terrorism? Don’t be terrorized.
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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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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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Sometimes great, banned works defy the censor's description and impose themselves on the world - 'Ulysses,' 'Lolita,' the 'Arabian Nights.'
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I think it's a very important function of art to challenge accepted reality, especially when that reality is created by powerful interest groups.
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Someone asked me if I was afraid to write my memoirs. I told him: 'We have to stop drawing up accounts of fear! We live in a society in which people are allowed to tell their story, and that is what I do.'
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There needs to be a thorough examination, by Muslims everywhere, of why it is that the faith they love breeds so many violent mutant strains.
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Sometimes when you finish a book, you don't know quite what you've got.
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There is nothing like a War for the reinvention of lives.
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Unfortunately, the problem of the free speech argument is that you have to defend people you can't stand.
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What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.
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If by some bizarre chance there turns out to be a god [...], I'm willing to bet he's an atheist too.
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Things, even people have a way of leaking into each other like flavours when you cook.
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If you actually want to change your world, there is a better way of doing it than blowing yourself up.
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If you're offended, it's your problem.
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It is commonly and, I believe, accurately said of Pakistan that her women are much more impressive than her men.
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Fundamentalists of all faiths are the fundamental evil of our time.
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I stand with Charlie Hebdo, as we all must, to defend the art of satire.
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From the beginning men used God to justify the unjustifiable.
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