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Salman Rushdie
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: June 19
Actor
Essayist
Novelist
Screenwriter
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Bombay
Rushdie
Joseph Anton
Sir Ahmed Salman Rushdie
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What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist. Without the freedom to challenge, even to satirize all orthodoxies, it ceases to exist. Language and the imagination cannot be imprisoned, or art will die, and with it, a little of what makes us human.
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Children like being a little scared, but they don't want to be disturbed.
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One of the reasons my name is Rushdie is that my father was an admirer of Ibn Rush'd, the 12th century Arab philosopher known as Averroes in the West. In his time, he was making the non-literalist case for interpreting the Koran.
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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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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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Such is the miraculous nature of the future of exiles: what is first uttered in the impotence of an overheated apartment becomes the fate of nations.
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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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I've never rejected the world I came from. To be rejected by it is horrible.
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I'm a world expert on superhero comics. I think maybe only Michael Chabon knows more than me.
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If you have children you worry about the world you're leaving them.
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What's real and what's true aren't necessarily the same.
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I'm a novelist. Fortunately I don't have to rule the world.
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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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In the real world, immeasurable hurt is caused by terrorists based in Pakistan who attack countries like India.
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A man is sane only to the extent that he subscribes to a previously-agreed construction of reality.
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I know who I am, I know what I'm for, and I know what I'm willing to fight for.
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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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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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My children are English, and both of their mothers were English.
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A mature society understands that at the heart of democracy is argument.
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