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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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Not even the visionary or mystical experience ever lasts very long. It is for art to capture that experience, to offer it to, in the case of literature, its readers to be, for a secular, materialist culture, some sort of replacement for what the love of god offers in the world of faith.
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Between shame and shamelessness lies the axis upon which we turn meteorological conditions at both these poles are of the most extreme, ferocious type. Shamelessness, shame: the roots of violence.
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It seems that the right of freedom of speech that was enshrined in numerous constitutions is now under attack by religious institutions.
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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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