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If by some bizarre chance there turns out to be a god [...], I'm willing to bet he's an atheist too.

Salman Rushdie

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Salman Rushdie
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: June 19
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The question I'm always asking myself is: are we masters or victims? Do we make history, or does history make us? Do we shape the world, or are we just shaped by it? The question of do we have agency in our lives or whether we are just passive victims of events is, I think, a great question, and one that I have always tried to ask.
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India is my kid sister.
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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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He would dream of discovering a magic optometrist from whom he would purchase a pair of green-tinged spectacles which would correct his regrettable myopia, and after that he would be able to see through the dense, blinding air to the fabulous world beneath.
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In the cookie of life, friends are the chocolate chips.
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If Woody Allen were a Muslim, he'd be dead by now.
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I discovered that if you find the language to talk to younger readers, children can accept anything.
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It's a terrible thing that your life turns into a good story.
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If I were asked for a one-sentence sound bite on religion, I would say I was against it.
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The PEN/Barbara Goldsmith Freedom to Write Award is a way of spotlighting individual cases. If you look at the history of the award, the freedom rate is very high: a very high percentage of people who receive those awards are freed in the next six months to a year. The only weapon there is attention, but interestingly it works.
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I seem to have fallen for women with missing parents. Goodness knows what it signifies.
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Life is elsewhere. Cross frontiers. Fly away.
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But I - and I just think it's very - one of the problems of defending the extraordinary principle of freedom of speech is that you have to defend freedom of speech for people like that too.
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Home is the place where you feel happy.
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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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Once you get that instinct for the fictiveness, the fictionality of fiction, it kind of sets you free.
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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.
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In the real world, immeasurable hurt is caused by terrorists based in Pakistan who attack countries like India.
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Things, even people have a way of leaking into each other like flavours when you cook.
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The sixty-minute drama form has become very rich.
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