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Salman Rushdie
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: June 19
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Religion, a mediaeval form of unreason, when combined with modern weaponry becomes a real threat to our freedoms.
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Sometimes I think that when people become famous, there's a public perception that they are not human beings any more. They don't have feelings they don't get hurt you can act and say as you like about them.
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optimism is a disease
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When you know what you're against you have taken the first step to discovering what you're for.
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I discovered that if you find the language to talk to younger readers, children can accept anything.
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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 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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I determined to make my peace with Islam, even at the cost of my pride. Those who were surprised and displeased by what I did perhaps failed to see that ... I wanted to make peace between the warring halves of the world, which were also the warring halves of my soul.
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My heart broke open and history fell in.
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If you give in to the threat of violence, if you give in to bullying, what you know is that there will be more bullying. There will not be less bullying. If you appease the bully, you make sure that he will bully you some more. Not less. It doesn't solve the problem. It makes the problem worse.
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Things, even people have a way of leaking into each other like flavours when you cook.
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The PEN/Barbara Goldsmith Freedom to Write Award is a way of spotlighting individual cases. If you look at the history of the award, the freedom rate is very high: a very high percentage of people who receive those awards are freed in the next six months to a year. The only weapon there is attention, but interestingly it works.
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I'm a reader of Chinese literature, I like their films, but also: I've had great difficulty getting my work published in China very little of it has been published there. The first two attempts to have all of my work published, for instance, were refused without any reason ever being given.
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Whores and writers, Mahound. We are the people you can't forgive.
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History could claw upward as well as down. The powerful could be deafened by the cries of the poor.
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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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You can adhere to your faith, but that faith needs to march in line with the rest of the world and needs to find a way of expressing itself in the modern world.
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What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.
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Doubt, it seems to me, is the central condition of a human being in the twentieth century.
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The West should be tougher on Pakistan. It is trying to play both ends against the middle - to look like the friend of the revolutionaries on the one hand and a friend of the West in the fight against terrorism. It can't be both things.
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