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Everything has shape, if you look for it. There is no escape from form.
Salman Rushdie
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Salman Rushdie
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: June 19
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I was 21 in 1968, so I'm as much a child of the '60s as is possible to be. In those years the subject of religion had really almost disappeared the idea that religion was going to be a major force in the life of our societies, in the West anyway, would have seemed absurd in 1968.
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I remember when I was young, many cities in the Muslim world were cosmopolitan cities with a lot of culture.
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Your blasphemy, Salman, can't be forgiven. To set your words against the Words of God.
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Don't you know girls have to fool people every day of their lives if they want to get anywhere?
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Meaning is a shaky edifice we build out of scraps, dogmas, childhood injuries, newspaper articles, chance remarks, old fillms, small victories, people hated, people loved perhaps it is because our sense of what is the case is constructed from such inadequate materials that we defend it so fiercely, even to death.
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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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If love is a yearning to be like (even to become) the beloved, then hatred, it must be said, can be engendered by the same ambition, when it cannot be fulfilled.
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But there's one thing we must all be clear about: terrorism is not the pursuit of legitimate goals by some sort of illegitimate means. Whatever the murderers may be trying to achieve, creating a better world certainly isn't one of their goals. Instead they are out to murder innocent people.
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It's always been colossally important to me that my books should be well received in India. It's where I come from.
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We live in an age where the rate of change has been colossal. Colossal. Almost every week there's some transformation of some kind, whether technological or political or scientific, whatever. And I think it's bewildering to human beings to live in a time when they can't take anything as fixed - when everything is shifting and changing all the time.
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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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One of the strange things about violent and authoritarian regimes is they don't like the glare of negative publicity.
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I seem to have fallen for women with missing parents. Goodness knows what it signifies.
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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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If Woody Allen were a Muslim, he'd be dead by now.
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The First Amendment defends all forms of speech including hate speech, which is why groups like Ku Klux Klan are allowed to utter their poisonous remarks.
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[My work] is a love song to our mongrel selves.
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The real risks for any artist are taken in pushing the work to the limits of what is possible, in the attempt to increase the sum of what it is possible to think. Books become good when they go to this edge and risk falling over it -when they endanger the artist by reason of what he has, or has not, artistically dared.
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