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When I'm writing a book, sentence by sentence, I'm not thinking theoretically. I'm just trying to work out the story from inside the characters I've got.

Salman Rushdie

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Salman Rushdie
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: June 19
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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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Raif Badawi's is an important voice for all of us to hear.
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Not all possibilities are open to us. The world is finite our hopes spill over its rim.
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The glamour of being forbidden must not be underestimated.
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Free societies are societies in motion, and with motion comes friction.
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It just requires so much of you, and most of the time you feel dumb.
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perhaps, if one wishes to remain an individual in the midst of the teeming multitudes, one must make oneself grotesque.
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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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A man is sane only to the extent that he subscribes to a previously-agreed construction of reality.
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