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I get a lot of letters - a lot of letters saying, who knew that you were funny?

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Salman Rushdie
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: June 19
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Too many people had spent too long demonizing or totemizing me to listen seriously to what I had to say.
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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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Only the foolish, blinded by language's conventions, think of fire as red or gold. Fire is blue at it's melancholy rim, green in it's envious heart. It may burn white, or even, in it's greatest rages, black.
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I know who I am, I know what I'm for, and I know what I'm willing to fight for.
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And so it is they who, between them, give me all the reasons for believing in none.
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Two things form the bedrock of any open society - freedom of expression and rule of law. If you don't have those things, you don't have a free country.
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When you write, you write out of your best self. Everything else drops away.
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