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Salman Rushdie

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Salman Rushdie
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: June 19
Actor
Essayist
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
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Religion, a mediaeval form of unreason, when combined with modern weaponry becomes a real threat to our freedoms. This religious totalitarianism has caused a deadly mutation in the heart of Islam and we see the tragic consequences in Paris today.
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A sigh isn't just a sigh. We inhale the world and breathe out meaning. While we can. While we can.
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I have been a film buff all my life and believe that the finest cinema is fully the equal of the best novels.
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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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The only way of living in a free society is to feel that you have the right to say and do stuff.
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We were language's magpies by nature, stealing whatever sounded bright and shiny.
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I stand with Charlie Hebdo, as we all must, to defend the art of satire.
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Broad-mindedness is related to tolerance open-mindedness is the sibling of peace.
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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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I think it's a very important function of art to challenge accepted reality, especially when that reality is created by powerful interest groups.
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Human beings do not perceive things whole we are not gods but wounded creatures, cracked lenses, capably only of fractured perceptions. Partial beings, in all the senses of that phrase.
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Human beings understand themselves and shape their futures by arguing and challenging and questioning and saying the un-sayable, not by bowing the knee whether to gods or to men.
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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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I do not need the idea of God to explain the world I live in.
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But there's one thing we must all be clear about: terrorism is not the pursuit of legitimate goals by some sort of illegitimate means. Whatever the murderers may be trying to achieve, creating a better world certainly isn't one of their goals. Instead they are out to murder innocent people.
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I believe in the art of literature, I believe in freedom of the imagination, I believe in the kind of liberties that we enjoy in these lucky countries of the world.
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The interesting thing about history sometimes. is that you know these people existed, and you knew what jobs they did, but you don't know much about them as people, so you actually have to make them up.
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Nobody ever recognizes themselves unless they are not the character. There are many people who have claimed to be in my books, but unfortunately they were usually people that I didn't know.
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I've never had very high regard for therapists. I owe my health, my mental survival, to my friends and loved ones.
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She's no flibberti-gibberti mamzell, but a whir-stir-get-lost-sir bundla dynamite!
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