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Originality is dangerous. It challenges, questions, overturns assumptions, unsettles moral codes.
Salman Rushdie
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Salman Rushdie
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: June 19
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I'm no friend of Tony Blair's and I consider the Middle East policies of the United States and the UK fatal.
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All my adult life, if I didn't have several hours a day to sit in a room by myself, I would get antsy and irritable.
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Many of us didn't believe in the image of bin Laden as a wandering Old Man of the Mountains, living on plants and insects in an inhospitable cave somewhere on the porous Pakistan-Afghan border.
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English, no longer an English language, now grows from many roots.
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The worst, most insidious effect of censorship is that, in the end, it can deaden the imagination of the people. Where there is no debate, it is hard to go on remembering, every day, that there is a suppressed side to every argument.
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The idea of the sacred is quite simply one of the most conservative notions in any culture, because it seeks to turn other ideas - uncertainty, progress, change - into crimes.
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Bread and books: food for the body and food for the soul - what could be more worthy of our respect, and even love?
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As I look back, I feel a touch of pride at my younger self's dedication to literature, which gave him the strength of mind to resist the blandishments of the enemies of promise. The sirens of ad-land sang sweetly and seductively, but I thought of Odysseus lashing himself to the mast of his ship, and somehow stayed on course.
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Because I've always felt, whether the fatwa or whatever, the writer's great weapon is the truth and integrity of his voice. And as long as what you're saying is what you truly, honestly believe to be the case, then whatever the consequences, that's fine. That's an honorable position.
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I write books I'd enjoy reading, I'm the reader standing behind my shoulder.
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I stand with Charlie Hebdo, as we all must, to defend the art of satire, which has always been a force for liberty and against tyranny, dishonesty and stupidity.
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