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One minute you've got a lucky star watching over you and the next instant it's done a bunk.

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Salman Rushdie
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: June 19
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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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Unfortunately, the problem of the free speech argument is that you have to defend people you can't stand.
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One of the reasons my name is Rushdie is that my father was an admirer of Ibn Rush'd, the 12th century Arab philosopher known as Averroes in the West. In his time, he was making the non-literalist case for interpreting the Koran.
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American literature has always been immigrant.
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Everybody loves 'The Wire,' and I think it's okay, but in the end it's just a police series.
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One of the things a writer is for is to say the unsayable, speak the unspeakable and ask difficult questions.
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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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Originality is dangerous. It challenges, questions, overturns assumptions, unsettles moral codes.
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I stand with Charlie Hebdo, as we all must, to defend the art of satire, which has always been a force for liberty and against tyranny, dishonesty and stupidity.
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We are the only animals that tell stories to understand the world we live in.
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There is a widespread difficulty in the Muslim world, which has to do with how the people are taught about examining their own history. A whole range of stuff has been placed off limits.
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Home is the place where you feel happy.
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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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I don't read my books, I write them. Once I've finished the many years it usually takes me to write them, I can't bear to read them, because I've spent too long with them already. I'm not advertising them very well, am I?
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I'm definitely post-something.
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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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If you have children you worry about the world you're leaving them.
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You can't judge an internal injury by the size of the hole.
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The USA approach looks like bullying because it is.
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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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