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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.

Salman Rushdie

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Salman Rushdie
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: June 19
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England in a way is lucky. It's an island, so the frontiers are given by the sea.
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We were language's magpies by nature, stealing whatever sounded bright and shiny.
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Be sure that you go to the author to get at his meaning, not to find yours.
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Nobody wants to read a 600 page book in which the author is fabulous throughout.
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If Woody Allen were a Muslim, he'd be dead by now.
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Peace, perfect peace, in this dark world of sin? The Blood of Jesus whispers peace within.
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Everybody loves 'The Wire,' and I think it's okay, but in the end it's just a police series.
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I think if we wish to live in any kind of a moral universe, we must hold the perpetrators of violence responsible for the violence they perpetrate. It's very simple. The criminal is responsible for the crime.
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There's going to be no more compromise on issues where there should not be compromise. Enough with appeasement or apology and mollifying, all that. To hell with all that. I'm just going to fight my corner.
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I would argue that religion comes from a desire to get to the questions of, 'Where do we come from?' and 'How shall we live?' And I would say I don't need religion to answer those questions.
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In the cookie of life, friends are the chocolate chips.
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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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Stories in families are colossally important. Every family has stories: some funny, some proud, some embarrassing, some shameful. Knowing them is proof of belonging to the family.
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