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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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How do you defeat terrorism? Don’t be terrorized.
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I'm a reader of Chinese literature, I like their films, but also: I've had great difficulty getting my work published in China very little of it has been published there. The first two attempts to have all of my work published, for instance, were refused without any reason ever being given.
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A figure of speech is a shifty thing it can be twisted or it can be straight.
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Someone asked me if I was afraid to write my memoirs. I told him: 'We have to stop drawing up accounts of fear! We live in a society in which people are allowed to tell their story, and that is what I do.'
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Be sure that you go to the author to get at his meaning, not to find yours.
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In Iran, fundamentalism was fuelled to an extent by the regime of the Shah being supported by the West.
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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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thought I was doing two things. One is inquiring into the phenomenon of revelation, if you are not a religious person. But, clearly, it's a sincere phenomenon.
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If I were asked for a one-sentence sound bite on religion, I would say I was against it.
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Originality is dangerous. It challenges, questions, overturns assumptions, unsettles moral codes.
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One of the characteristics of mudslinging is that mud sticks if it's thrown with enough force for long enough.
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Islam is unusual in that it's the only one of the great world religions which was born inside recorded history. That there's an enormous amount of factual historical record about the life of a prophet and about social conditions in Arabia at that time. So it's possible to look at the origin of Islam in a scholarly way.
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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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Nobody ever recognizes themselves unless they are not the character. There are many people who have claimed to be in my books, but unfortunately they were usually people that I didn't know.
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Some people are paralyzed by the consciousness of death, other people live with it.... The fatwa certainly made me think about it a lot more than I ever had. I guess I know I'm going to die, but then, so are you.
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There needs to be a thorough examination, by Muslims everywhere, of why it is that the faith they love breeds so many violent mutant strains.
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