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[My work] is a love song to our mongrel selves.

Salman Rushdie

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Salman Rushdie
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: June 19
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The response of anybody interested in liberty is that we all have a say and the ability to have an argument is exactly what liberty is, even though it may never be resolved. In any authoritarian society the possessor of power dictates, and if you try and step outside he will come after you.
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Things, even people have a way of leaking into each other like flavours when you cook.
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Once you put a thought into the world, it can be disagreed with, but it can't be unthought.
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I'm not a prophet, but I always thought it was natural for dictatorships to fall. I remember in 1989, two months before the fall of the Berlin Wall, had you said it was going to happen no one would have believed you. The system seemed powerful and unbreakable. Suddenly overnight it blew away like dust.
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I think people direct good films when they feel personal to them, not because it's a famous book or something. It has to something move over that and somehow become personal to the director.
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The writers of the French enlightenment had deliberately used blasphemy as a weapon, refusing to accept the power of the Church to set limiting points on thought.
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We must conclude that it is not only a particular political ideology that has failed, but the idea that men and women could ever define themselves in terms that exclude their spiritual needs.
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I'm definitely post-something.
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We have come to think of taking offence as a fundamental right. We value very little more highly than our rage, which gives us, in our opinion, the moral high ground. From there we can shoot down at our enemies and inflict heavy fatalities.
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In the cookie of life, friends are the chocolate chips.
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To understand just one life you have to swallow the world ... do you wonder, then, that I was a heavy child?
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It's a terrible thing that your life turns into a good story.
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Raif Badawi's is an important voice for all of us to hear.
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Sometimes, people trying to commit suicide manage it in a manner that leaves them breathless with astonishment.
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I will come back to India - so deal with it.
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Mo Yan is the Chinese equivalent of the Soviet Russian apparatchik writer Mikhail Sholokhov: a patsy of the regime.
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Realism can break a writer's heart.
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Everybody loves 'The Wire,' and I think it's okay, but in the end it's just a police series.
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I always thought the front line was the bookstores. And bookstores around America, around the world did astonishingly well. They held the line. They didn't chicken out. You know, they defended the book. They kept it in the front of the store.
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