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Salman Rushdie
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: June 19
Actor
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Broad-mindedness is related to tolerance open-mindedness is the sibling of peace.
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Perhaps because my relationship with my father went through such a long, bumpy time, it's been very important for me to work to try to keep lines of communication open between my sons and myself to try to avoid my father's mistakes. At least if you're making mistakes, make different mistakes.
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Ideas are interesting to me, and religions are a place where ideas have been very subtly embodied for thousands of years. All literature started as sacred literature.
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There are two things in Indian history - one is the incredible optimism and potential of the place, and the other is the betrayal of that potential - for example, corruption. Those two strands intertwine through the whole of Indian history, and maybe not just Indian history.
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I'm a novelist. Fortunately I don't have to rule the world.
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It is very, very easy not to be offended by a book. You just have to shut it.
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I don't think there is a need for an entity like God in my life.
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Once you put a thought into the world, it can be disagreed with, but it can't be unthought.
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As I look back, I feel a touch of pride at my younger self's dedication to literature, which gave him the strength of mind to resist the blandishments of the enemies of promise. The sirens of ad-land sang sweetly and seductively, but I thought of Odysseus lashing himself to the mast of his ship, and somehow stayed on course.
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If there is a choice between absolute safety and freedom, then freedom must always prevail.
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People must be protected from prejudice against their person. But people cannot be protected from prejudice against their ideas - because otherwise we're all done.
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I want to write novels. I want to write stories. I want to do the stuff that I became a writer to do.
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It's obvious that I come down on the side of free speech for anybody's work.
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Whores and writers, Mahound. We are the people you can't forgive.
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It is often said by religious people that without its framework, there is no sense of right or wrong. My view is that religion comes after ethics.
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The only privilege literature deserves - and this privilege it requires in order to exist - is the privilege of being in the arena of discourse, the place where the struggle of our languages can be acted out.
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Well, we're still in the middle of it. And it doesn't show any sign of going away. And these attacks that were - that seemed so odd at the time, with Satanic Verses, because we didn't have any context for this. You know, where did that come from? It seemed to come out of nowhere.
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In television, the 60-minute series, 'The Wire' and 'Mad Men' and so on, the writer is the primary creative artist.
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Some people are paralyzed by the consciousness of death, other people live with it.... The fatwa certainly made me think about it a lot more than I ever had. I guess I know I'm going to die, but then, so are you.
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Wherever goodness lay, it did not lie in ritual, unthinking obeisance before a deity but rather, perhaps, in the slow clumsy, error-strewn working out of an individual or collective path.
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