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My love for Dan Brown knows no bounds. It literally has no mass.

Salman Rushdie

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Salman Rushdie
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: June 19
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People must be protected from prejudice against their person. But people cannot be protected from prejudice against their ideas - because otherwise we're all done.
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I grew up falling in love with kind of story, amazing, wonder tale of the East, which if you're a child growing up in India is all around you.And I think one of the gifts it gave me as a writer was this early knowledge that stories are not true.
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One either loves, or waits for love, or banishes love for good. That is the full range of possible choices.
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I grew up kissing books and bread.
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Too many people had spent too long demonizing or totemizing me to listen seriously to what I had to say.
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Very often, people who actually pick up a book of mine for the first time are kind of surprised. And I get these letters saying, well, who knew that you were good, you know?
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The Chinese are good at repression and can be pretty ruthless about it.
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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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Certainly, poverty and economic decline have a lot to do with the so-called rage of Islam. You've got all these young men in countries which are economically in bad shape. The idea that they might be able to make a good living and get married and have a family, a decent life, seems very remote to a lot of people in a lot of the world.
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Even the Islam stuff I thought was pretty respectful about Islam in a funny way. I mean, yes, from a secular point of view, but it talks about the birth of this religion, and I thought it was pretty admiring of the person at the center of it, the prophet of Islam.
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I'm not a very big fan of 'Slumdog Millionaire.' I think it's visually brilliant. But I have problems with the story line. I find the storyline unconvincing.
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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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Even when things are at their worst, there's a little voice in your head saying, 'Good story!'
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The sixty-minute drama form has become very rich.
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I don't like books that play to the gallery, but I've become more concerned with telling a story as clearly and engagingly as I can.
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The west was involved in toppling the Mossadegh government. That ultimately led to the Iranian revolution.
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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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Many of us didn't believe in the image of bin Laden as a wandering Old Man of the Mountains, living on plants and insects in an inhospitable cave somewhere on the porous Pakistan-Afghan border.
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Bread and books: food for the body and food for the soul - what could be more worthy of our respect, and even love?
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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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