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Our lives, our stories, flowed into one another's, were no longer our own, individual, discrete.
Salman Rushdie
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Salman Rushdie
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: June 19
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How to forgive the world for its beauty, which merely disguises its ugliness for its gentleness, which merely cloaks its cruelty for its illusion of continuity, seamlessly, as the night follows the day, so to speak- whereas in reality life is a series of brutal raptures, falling upon your defenseless hands, like the blows of a woodman's axe?
Salman Rushdie
The glamour of being forbidden must not be underestimated.
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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.
Salman Rushdie
I had a very difficult relationship with my father, which ended up okay, but there were many difficult years.
Salman Rushdie
For many people, I've ceased to be a human being. I've become an issue, a bother, an affair.... And has it really been so long since religions persecuted people, burning them as heretics, drowning them as witches, that you can't recognize religious persecution when you see it?
Salman Rushdie
What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.
Salman Rushdie
Killing people because you don't like their ideas - it's a bad thing.
Salman Rushdie
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.
Salman Rushdie
Human beings, you see, do absolutely two primary things. We see like and unlike. Like becomes, in literature, simile and metaphor. Unlike becomes uniqueness and difference, from which I believe, the novel is born.
Salman Rushdie
The Chinese are good at repression and can be pretty ruthless about it.
Salman Rushdie
My children are English, and both of their mothers were English.
Salman Rushdie
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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That's the trouble with you sad-city types: a place has to be miserable and dull as ditchwater before you believe it's real.
Salman Rushdie
I discovered that if you find the language to talk to younger readers, children can accept anything.
Salman Rushdie
Your blasphemy, Salman, can't be forgiven. To set your words against the Words of God.
Salman Rushdie
I get a lot of letters - a lot of letters saying, who knew that you were funny?
Salman Rushdie
Something was badly amiss with the spiritual life of the planet...Too many demons inside people claiming to believe in God.
Salman Rushdie
Now I know what a ghost is. Unfinished business, that's what.
Salman Rushdie
To understand just one life you have to swallow the world ... do you wonder, then, that I was a heavy child?
Salman Rushdie
There is no magic on earth strong enough to wipe out the legacies of one's parents.
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