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Salman Rushdie
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: June 19
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Pakistan is alarmed by the rising Indian influence in Afghanistan, and fears that an Afghanistan cleansed of the Taliban would be an Indian client state, thus sandwiching Pakistan between two hostile countries. The paranoia of Pakistan about India's supposed dark machinations should never be underestimated.
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People would come and threaten them. And they would respond by putting the book in the window. Behind that, the publishers, many of whom were menaced and receiving anonymous phone calls of the very menacing kind and so, almost everybody - not everybody, but almost everybody held the line.
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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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I get a lot of letters - a lot of letters saying, who knew that you were funny?
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If there is a choice between absolute safety and freedom, then freedom must always prevail.
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The Chinese are good at repression and can be pretty ruthless about it.
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The Koran was revealed at a time of great change in the Arab world, the seventh-century shift from a matriarchal nomadic culture to an urban patriarchal system.
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[My work] is a love song to our mongrel selves.
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If love is a yearning to be like (even to become) the beloved, then hatred, it must be said, can be engendered by the same ambition, when it cannot be fulfilled.
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I'll tell you what divorce hasn't taught me. It didn't teach me not to get married again.
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Realism can break a writer's heart.
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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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How do you defeat terrorism? Don’t be terrorized.
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Killing people because you don't like their ideas - it's a bad thing.
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I am gagged and imprisoned. I can't even speak. I want to kick a football in a park with my son. Ordinary, banal life: my impossible dream.
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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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The writers of the French enlightenment had deliberately used blasphemy as a weapon, refusing to accept the power of the Church to set limiting points on thought.
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I don't dictate to anyone what to believe and what not to. And I don't want that to be dictated to me either.
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So India’s problem turns out to be the world’s problem. What happened in India has happened in God’s name. The problem’s name is God.
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Before I came to England, my favorite authors were P. G. Wodehouse and Agatha Christie. I used to devour both.
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