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You start at the stupid end of the book, and if you're lucky you finish at the smart end.

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Salman Rushdie
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: June 19
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If you give in to the threat of violence, if you give in to bullying, what you know is that there will be more bullying. There will not be less bullying. If you appease the bully, you make sure that he will bully you some more. Not less. It doesn't solve the problem. It makes the problem worse.
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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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I want more than what I want. (Vina Apsara)
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If my child had prejudice in his head, I'd be ashamed. I would see it as my failure as a parent.
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Don't you know girls have to fool people every day of their lives if they want to get anywhere?
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Sometimes I think that when people become famous, there's a public perception that they are not human beings any more. They don't have feelings they don't get hurt you can act and say as you like about them.
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I for one don't need a supreme sacred arbiter in order to be a moral being.
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It may be argued that the past is a country from which we have all emigrated, that its loss is part of our common humanity.
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Things, even people have a way of leaking into each other like flavours when you cook.
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Hell is other people's fantasies.
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Once you get that instinct for the fictiveness, the fictionality of fiction, it kind of sets you free.
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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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We must agree on what matters: kissing in public places, bacon sandwiches, disagreement, cutting-edge fashion, literature, generosity, water, a more equitable distribution of the world's resources, movies, music, freedom of thought, beauty, love.
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Khattam-Shud,' he said slowly, 'is the Arch-Enemy of all Stories, even of language itself. He is the Prince of Silence and the Foe of Speech. And because everything ends, because dreams end, stories end, life ends, at the finish of everything we use his name. It's finished, we tell one another, it's over. Khattam-Shud: The End.
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That's the trouble with you sad-city types: a place has to be miserable and dull as ditchwater before you believe it's real.
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We were language's magpies by nature, stealing whatever sounded bright and shiny.
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If the creative artist worries if he will still be free tomorrow, then he will not be free today.
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They lived in a great city, a metropolis of many narratives that converged briefly and then separated for ever, discovering their different dooms in that crowd of stories through which all of us, following our own destinies, had to push and shove to find our way through, or out.
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