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We are the only animals that tell stories to understand the world we live in.

Salman Rushdie

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Salman Rushdie
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: June 19
Actor
Essayist
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Bombay
Rushdie
Joseph Anton
Sir Ahmed Salman Rushdie
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Stories
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World
Animals
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Understand

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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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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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The only way of living in a free society is to feel that you have the right to say and do stuff.
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perhaps, if one wishes to remain an individual in the midst of the teeming multitudes, one must make oneself grotesque.
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You start at the stupid end of the book, and if you're lucky you finish at the smart end.
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Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself.
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It is commonly and, I believe, accurately said of Pakistan that her women are much more impressive than her men.
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