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Not all possibilities are open to us. The world is finite our hopes spill over its rim.
Salman Rushdie
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Salman Rushdie
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: June 19
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Speaking as somebody with three sisters and a very largely female Muslim family, there is not a single woman I know in my family or in their friends who would have accepted the wearing of a veil.
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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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The response of anybody interested in liberty is that we all have a say and the ability to have an argument is exactly what liberty is, even though it may never be resolved. In any authoritarian society the possessor of power dictates, and if you try and step outside he will come after you.
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Home has become such a scattered, damaged, various concept in our present travails. There is so much to yearn for. There are so few rainbows any more.
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Killing people because you don't like their ideas - it's a bad thing.
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Sometimes writing a novel is not unlike having a baby. You'd have to ask a female novelist to compare the pain.
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I stand with Charlie Hebdo, as we all must, to defend the art of satire.
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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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The west was involved in toppling the Mossadegh government. That ultimately led to the Iranian revolution.
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Free societies...are societies in motion, and with motion comes tension, dissent, friction. Free people strike sparks, and those sparks are the best evidence of freedom's existence.
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Is birth always a fall?
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I determined to make my peace with Islam, even at the cost of my pride. Those who were surprised and displeased by what I did perhaps failed to see that ... I wanted to make peace between the warring halves of the world, which were also the warring halves of my soul.
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And so it is they who, between them, give me all the reasons for believing in none.
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I needed my stuff around me, and in that little cocoon I felt good, and I could work.
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Your blasphemy, Salman, can't be forgiven. To set your words against the Words of God.
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It is often said by religious people that without its framework, there is no sense of right or wrong. My view is that religion comes after ethics.
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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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It is very, very easy not to be offended by a book. You just have to shut it.
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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 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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