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Things, even people have a way of leaking into each other like flavours when you cook.

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Salman Rushdie
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: June 19
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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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I have no problem with people's religious beliefs. I just don't happen to have any.
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My heart broke open and history fell in.
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We were language's magpies by nature, stealing whatever sounded bright and shiny.
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Killing people because you don't like their ideas - it's a bad thing.
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One of the reasons my name is Rushdie is that my father was an admirer of Ibn Rush'd, the 12th century Arab philosopher known as Averroes in the West. In his time, he was making the non-literalist case for interpreting the Koran.
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India is my kid sister.
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I do have a lot of time for people in my life, and friendship is a very important subject for me. I think I'm unusual among the writers I know in that respect.
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Meaning is a shaky edifice we build out of scraps, dogmas, childhood injuries, newspaper articles, chance remarks, old fillms, small victories, people hated, people loved perhaps it is because our sense of what is the case is constructed from such inadequate materials that we defend it so fiercely, even to death.
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The USA approach looks like bullying because it is.
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A man who catches History's eye is thereafter bound to a mistress from whom he will never escape.
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I am gagged and imprisoned. I can't even speak. I want to kick a football in a park with my son. Ordinary, banal life: my impossible dream.
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If Woody Allen were a Muslim, he'd be dead by now.
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If I were dead, then nobody in England would have to fuss about the cost of my security and whether or not I merited such special treatment for so long.
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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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To see things plainly, you have to cross a frontier.
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YouTube is full of pieces of trash. If you want to look on YouTube and find something that insults you, you can probably find it.
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