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Religion is responsible for a lot of the problems in the history of the world and it's not something that I practice or recommend, but to each his own.

Salman Rushdie

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Salman Rushdie
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: June 19
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Language upon a silvered tongue affords enchantment enough.
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Killing people because you don't like their ideas - it's a bad thing.
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I will come back to India - so deal with it.
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The history of life was not the bumbling progress - the very English, middle-class progress - Victorian thought had wanted it to be, but violent, a thing of dramatic, cumulative transformations: in the old formulation, more revolution than evolution.
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To be born again,' sang Gibreal Farishta tumbling from the heaveans, 'first you have to die. Ho ji! Ho ji! To land upon the bosomy earth, first one needs to fly Tat-taa! Takatun! How to ever smile again, if first you won't cry? How to win the darling's love mister, without a sigh?
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Peace, perfect peace, in this dark world of sin? The Blood of Jesus whispers peace within.
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But love is what we want, not freedom. Who then is the unluckier man? The beloved, who is given his heart's desire and must for ever after fear its loss, or the free man, with his unlooked-for liberty, naked and alone between the captive armies of the earth?
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Of course, there is nothing intrinsic linking any religion with any act of violence. The crusades don't prove that Christianity was violent. The Inquisition doesn't prove that Christianity tortures people. But that Christianity did torture people.
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