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Salman Rushdie
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: June 19
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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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War used to be something you could stand on the nearby hill and watch. Now we have total war everybody's in it. We have total economics as well. Everything affects everybody. The Malaysian currency shakes, and people around the world are seriously affected.
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What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.
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Live on, survive, for the earth gives forth wonders. It may swallow your heart, but the wonders keep on coming. You stand before them bareheaded, shriven. What is expected of you is attention.
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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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If you're offended, it's your problem.
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You can adhere to your faith, but that faith needs to march in line with the rest of the world and needs to find a way of expressing itself in the modern world.
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I saw Quentin Tarantino's 'Django Unchained,' and you could say a lot of things against it, but it was incredible fun. I don't like blood and gore and I am very squeamish about violence, but Tarantino's violence is actually funny.
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What you were is forever who you are.
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Human beings understand themselves and shape their futures by arguing and challenging and questioning and saying the un-sayable, not by bowing the knee whether to gods or to men.
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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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The west was involved in toppling the Mossadegh government. That ultimately led to the Iranian revolution.
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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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How do you defeat terrorism? Don’t be terrorized.
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Doubt, it seems to me, is the central condition of a human being in the twentieth century.
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Pakistan is alarmed by the rising Indian influence in Afghanistan, and fears that an Afghanistan cleansed of the Taliban would be an Indian client state, thus sandwiching Pakistan between two hostile countries. The paranoia of Pakistan about India's supposed dark machinations should never be underestimated.
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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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You never know the answers to the questions of life until you are asked.
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I'll tell you what divorce hasn't taught me. It didn't teach me not to get married again.
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The liveliness of literature lies in its exceptionality, in being the individual, idiosyncratic vision of one human being, in which, to our delight and great surprise, we may find our own vision reflected.
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