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Salman Rushdie
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: June 19
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You can't have modern states based on ideas which have been out of date for a thousand years.
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An iceberg is water striving to be land a mountain, especially a Himalaya, especially Everest, is land's attempt to metamorphose into sky it is grounded in flight, the earth mutated--nearly--into air, and become, in the true sense, exalted. Long before she ever encountered the mountain, Allie was aware of its brooding presence in her soul.
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The idea of the sacred is quite simply one of the most conservative notions in any culture, because it seeks to turn other ideas - uncertainty, progress, change - into crimes.
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If by some bizarre chance there turns out to be a god [...], I'm willing to bet he's an atheist too.
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Only the foolish, blinded by language's conventions, think of fire as red or gold. Fire is blue at it's melancholy rim, green in it's envious heart. It may burn white, or even, in it's greatest rages, black.
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Khattam-Shud,' he said slowly, 'is the Arch-Enemy of all Stories, even of language itself. He is the Prince of Silence and the Foe of Speech. And because everything ends, because dreams end, stories end, life ends, at the finish of everything we use his name. It's finished, we tell one another, it's over. Khattam-Shud: The End.
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Doubt, it seems to me, is the central condition of a human being in the twentieth century.
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Sometimes you find your voice by trying to write like people, and sometimes you find it by trying to write unlike people.
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A people that has remained convinced of its greatness and invulnerability, that has chosen to believe such a myth in the face of all the evidence, is a people in the grip of a kind of sleep, or madness.
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I do think that there is such a thing as human nature, and that the things that we have in common are perhaps greater than the things that divide us.
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Make as much racket as you like people. Noise is life and an excess of noise is a sign that life is good. There will be time for us all to be quiet when we are safely dead.
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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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If you have children you worry about the world you're leaving them.
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What happened in Pakistan was that people were told: You're all Muslim, so now you're a country. As we saw in 1971 with the Bangladesh secession, the answer to that was: 'Oh no, we're not.'
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The rate of change is global now. I think there's a kind of mind that is so ill at ease with that transformation that it reaches out for something permanent. And religious faith offers that, from simplicities, which you are told are eternal and unchanging, and you can hold on to those like a life raft in a metamorphosing world.
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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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Language upon a silvered tongue affords enchantment enough.
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I'm no friend of Tony Blair's and I consider the Middle East policies of the United States and the UK fatal.
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Things, even people have a way of leaking into each other like flavours when you cook.
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Nobody wants to read a 600 page book in which the author is fabulous throughout.
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