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One minute you've got a lucky star watching over you and the next instant it's done a bunk.
Salman Rushdie
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Salman Rushdie
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: June 19
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Between shame and shamelessness lies the axis upon which we turn meteorological conditions at both these poles are of the most extreme, ferocious type. Shamelessness, shame: the roots of violence.
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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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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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India is my kid sister.
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Don't you know girls have to fool people every day of their lives if they want to get anywhere?
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Madame Bovary and a flying carpet, they are both untrue in the same way. Somebody made them up.
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It just requires so much of you, and most of the time you feel dumb.
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Whores and writers, Mahound. We are the people you can't forgive.
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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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In the real world, immeasurable hurt is caused by terrorists based in Pakistan who attack countries like India.
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How do you defeat terrorism? Don’t be terrorized.
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It doesn't matter whether characters are real people or not if they're not vivid on the page, then the reader doesn't care about them that much, and, if the reader doesn't care about them that much, then they don't care what happens to them.
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Ignorantly is how we all fall in love for it is a kind of fall. Closing our eyes, we leap from that cliff in hope of a soft landing. Nor is it always soft but still, without that leap nobody comes to 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 want more than what I want. (Vina Apsara)
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