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Peace, perfect peace, in this dark world of sin? The Blood of Jesus whispers peace within.
Salman Rushdie
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Salman Rushdie
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: June 19
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I don't know what to say about literary critics. I think it's probably best to say nothing.
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When I'm writing a book, sentence by sentence, I'm not thinking theoretically. I'm just trying to work out the story from inside the characters I've got.
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Before I came to England, my favorite authors were P. G. Wodehouse and Agatha Christie. I used to devour both.
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A man who invents himself needs someone to believe in him... Not only the need to be believed in, but the need to believe in another. You've got it: Love.
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Well, we're still in the middle of it. And it doesn't show any sign of going away. And these attacks that were - that seemed so odd at the time, with Satanic Verses, because we didn't have any context for this. You know, where did that come from? It seemed to come out of nowhere.
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This paranoid Islam, which blames outsider, 'infidels', for all the ills of Muslim societies, and whose proposed remedy is the closing of those societies to the rival project of modernity, is presently the fastest growing version of Islam in the world.
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The glamour of being forbidden must not be underestimated.
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The way you write a screenplay is that you close your eyes and run the movie in your head and then you write it down.
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A mature society understands that at the heart of democracy is argument.
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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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From the beginning men used God to justify the unjustifiable.
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You never know the answers to the questions of life until you are asked.
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People are always telling me that they've seen people reading my books on the subway, or the beach, or whenever.
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What can't be cured must be endured.
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In an ideal world, you could reunite the Pakistan-occupied part of Kashmir with the Indian-occupied part and restore the old borders. You could have both India and Pakistan agreeing to guarantee those borders, demilitarise the area, and to invest in it economically. In a sane world that would happen, but we don't live in a sane world.
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It's obvious that I come down on the side of free speech for anybody's work.
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I've never had very high regard for therapists. I owe my health, my mental survival, to my friends and loved ones.
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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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When thought becomes excessively painful, action is the finest remedy.
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I think it's a very important function of art to challenge accepted reality, especially when that reality is created by powerful interest groups.
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