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No people whose word for 'yesterday' is the same as their word for 'tomorrow' can be said to have a firm grip on the time.
Salman Rushdie
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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. This religious totalitarianism has caused a deadly mutation in the heart of Islam and we see the tragic consequences in Paris today.
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It may be that the books that were best liked in your lifetime are not the ones that are best liked 100 years later.
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In Iran, fundamentalism was fuelled to an extent by the regime of the Shah being supported by the West.
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I don't know what to say about literary critics. I think it's probably best to say nothing.
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The Koran was revealed at a time of great change in the Arab world, the seventh-century shift from a matriarchal nomadic culture to an urban patriarchal system.
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Sometimes great, banned works defy the censor's description and impose themselves on the world - 'Ulysses,' 'Lolita,' the 'Arabian Nights.'
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I'm not a big fan of there being voiceovers in movies. I really prefer it when the film tells it story.
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Whores and writers, Mahound. We are the people you can't forgive.
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Once you get that instinct for the fictiveness, the fictionality of fiction, it kind of sets you free.
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How do you defeat terrorism? Don’t be terrorized.
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Not all possibilities are open to us. The world is finite our hopes spill over its rim.
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The history of life was not the bumbling progress - the very English, middle-class progress - Victorian thought had wanted it to be, but violent, a thing of dramatic, cumulative transformations: in the old formulation, more revolution than evolution.
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Language upon a silvered tongue affords enchantment enough.
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Happy endings must come at the end of something,' the Walrus pointed out. 'If they happen in the middle of a story, or an adventure, or the like, all they do is cheer things up for awhile.
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One of the things a writer is for is to say the unsayable, speak the unspeakable and ask difficult questions.
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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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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?
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To be born again,' sang Gibreal Farishta tumbling from the heaveans, 'first you have to die. Ho ji! Ho ji! To land upon the bosomy earth, first one needs to fly Tat-taa! Takatun! How to ever smile again, if first you won't cry? How to win the darling's love mister, without a sigh?
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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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