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We all owe death a life.

Salman Rushdie

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Salman Rushdie
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: June 19
Actor
Essayist
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Bombay
Rushdie
Joseph Anton
Sir Ahmed Salman Rushdie
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To understand just one life you have to swallow the world ... do you wonder, then, that I was a heavy child?
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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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We have come to think of taking offence as a fundamental right. We value very little more highly than our rage, which gives us, in our opinion, the moral high ground. From there we can shoot down at our enemies and inflict heavy fatalities.
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I would argue that religion comes from a desire to get to the questions of, 'Where do we come from?' and 'How shall we live?' And I would say I don't need religion to answer those questions.
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I'm a novelist. Fortunately I don't have to rule the world.
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A man who catches History's eye is thereafter bound to a mistress from whom he will never escape.
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I'm definitely post-something.
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The mistake of the West was to put the Sauds on the throne of Saudi Arabia and give them control of the world's oil fortune, which they then used to propagate Wahhabi Islam.
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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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I'm not a big fan of there being voiceovers in movies. I really prefer it when the film tells it story.
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My children are English, and both of their mothers were English.
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It's obvious that I come down on the side of free speech for anybody's work.
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Things, even people have a way of leaking into each other like flavours when you cook.
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What's the use of stories that aren't even true?
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It's a terrible thing that your life turns into a good story.
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I don't think I've ever quite grown out of it, actually. There was a point where I could recite some of those Elvish verses - which I've mercifully forgotten. But I can still, if really pushed, recite the text of the inside of the ruling ring in the language of Mordor.
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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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The answer to religion is not no religion, but another way of thinking of it. Another way of being in it.
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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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In this world without quiet corners, there can be no easy escapes from history, from hullabaloo, from terrible, unquiet fuss.
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