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We were language's magpies by nature, stealing whatever sounded bright and shiny.

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Salman Rushdie
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: June 19
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I think if we wish to live in any kind of a moral universe, we must hold the perpetrators of violence responsible for the violence they perpetrate. It's very simple. The criminal is responsible for the crime.
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Whores and writers, Mahound. We are the people you can't forgive.
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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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I will come back to India - so deal with it.
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At the height of the British Empire very few English novels were written that dealt with British power. It's extraordinary that at the moment in which England was the global superpower the subject of British power appeared not to interest most writers.
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I have to say that after some initial resistance, I'm now a complete 'Game of Thrones' addict.
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Once you get that instinct for the fictiveness, the fictionality of fiction, it kind of sets you free.
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You can't judge an internal injury by the size of the hole.
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The worst, most insidious effect of censorship is that, in the end, it can deaden the imagination of the people. Where there is no debate, it is hard to go on remembering, every day, that there is a suppressed side to every argument.
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Be sure that you go to the author to get at his meaning, not to find yours.
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Sometimes, people trying to commit suicide manage it in a manner that leaves them breathless with astonishment.
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Normally when I read, I don't like music playing.
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If the culture shifts, if people think differently about women, the art will shift, too. You can't ask art to make social change. It's not what it's for.
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Children like being a little scared, but they don't want to be disturbed.
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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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Originality is dangerous. It challenges, questions, overturns assumptions, unsettles moral codes.
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I don't think there is a need for an entity like God in my life.
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Dissensions between Muslim nations run at least as deep, if not deeper, than those nations' resentment of the West.
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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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For many people, I've ceased to be a human being. I've become an issue, a bother, an affair.... And has it really been so long since religions persecuted people, burning them as heretics, drowning them as witches, that you can't recognize religious persecution when you see it?
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