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I didn't become a writer to write about me.

Salman Rushdie

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Salman Rushdie
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: June 19
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Free societies...are societies in motion, and with motion comes tension, dissent, friction. Free people strike sparks, and those sparks are the best evidence of freedom's existence.
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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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Even the Islam stuff I thought was pretty respectful about Islam in a funny way. I mean, yes, from a secular point of view, but it talks about the birth of this religion, and I thought it was pretty admiring of the person at the center of it, the prophet of Islam.
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One either loves, or waits for love, or banishes love for good. That is the full range of possible choices.
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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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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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Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself.
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I used to say, 'There is a God-shaped hole in me.' For a long time I stressed the absence, the hole. Now I find it is the shape which has become more important.
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The suicide bomber's imagination leads him to believe in a brilliant act of heroism, when in fact he is simply blowing himself up pointlessly and taking other people's lives.
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Everything has shape, if you look for it. There is no escape from form.
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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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What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.
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Ignorantly is how we all fall in love for it is a kind of fall. Closing our eyes, we leap from that cliff in hope of a soft landing. Nor is it always soft but still, without that leap nobody comes to life.
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