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What can't be cured must be endured.
Salman Rushdie
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Salman Rushdie
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: June 19
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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 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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Too many people had spent too long demonizing or totemizing me to listen seriously to what I had to say.
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India is my kid sister.
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If my child had prejudice in his head, I'd be ashamed. I would see it as my failure as a parent.
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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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Have you noticed the physical resemblance between Imran Khan and Gaddafi? If you were making a movie of the life of Gaddafi and you wanted a slightly better-looking version of Gaddafi, you might cast Imran Khan.
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What's the use of stories that aren't even true?
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You can't have modern states based on ideas which have been out of date for a thousand years.
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Some people are paralyzed by the consciousness of death, other people live with it.... The fatwa certainly made me think about it a lot more than I ever had. I guess I know I'm going to die, but then, so are you.
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The only privilege literature deserves - and this privilege it requires in order to exist - is the privilege of being in the arena of discourse, the place where the struggle of our languages can be acted out.
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For a fellow who's not to much to look at, you have the instincts of a champion.
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If a birth is the fall-out from the explosion caused by the union of two unstable elements, then perhaps a half-life is all we can expect.
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When you write, you write out of your best self. Everything else drops away.
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Hell is other people's fantasies.
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If I were dead, then nobody in England would have to fuss about the cost of my security and whether or not I merited such special treatment for so long.
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Out-of-step intellectuals like Noam Chomsky and the deceased Edward Said have often been dismissed as crazy extremists, 'anti-American,' and in Mr. Said's case even, absurdly, as apologists for Palestinian 'terrorism.'
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