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Salman Rushdie
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: June 19
Actor
Essayist
Novelist
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Bombay
Rushdie
Joseph Anton
Sir Ahmed Salman Rushdie
English
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Human beings, you see, do absolutely two primary things. We see like and unlike. Like becomes, in literature, simile and metaphor. Unlike becomes uniqueness and difference, from which I believe, the novel is born.
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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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Religion, a mediaeval form of unreason, when combined with modern weaponry becomes a real threat to our freedoms. This religious totalitarianism has caused a deadly mutation in the heart of Islam and we see the tragic consequences in Paris today.
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Nobody wants to read a 600 page book in which the author is fabulous throughout.
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I was 21 in 1968, so I'm as much a child of the '60s as is possible to be. In those years the subject of religion had really almost disappeared the idea that religion was going to be a major force in the life of our societies, in the West anyway, would have seemed absurd in 1968.
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Bread and books: food for the body and food for the soul - what could be more worthy of our respect, and even love?
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We are the only animals that tell stories to understand the world we live in.
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If there is a choice between absolute safety and freedom, then freedom must always prevail.
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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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I am gagged and imprisoned. I can't even speak. I want to kick a football in a park with my son. Ordinary, banal life: my impossible dream.
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In the cookie of life, friends are the chocolate chips.
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We are the storytelling animal.
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Very often, people who actually pick up a book of mine for the first time are kind of surprised. And I get these letters saying, well, who knew that you were good, you know?
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The history of a culture can be determined by its untranslatable words.
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Ideas are interesting to me, and religions are a place where ideas have been very subtly embodied for thousands of years. All literature started as sacred literature.
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If you actually want to change your world, there is a better way of doing it than blowing yourself up.
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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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A figure of speech is a shifty thing it can be twisted or it can be straight.
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Certainly, poverty and economic decline have a lot to do with the so-called rage of Islam. You've got all these young men in countries which are economically in bad shape. The idea that they might be able to make a good living and get married and have a family, a decent life, seems very remote to a lot of people in a lot of the world.
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The Republicans were not always insane. They might've had politics I didn't agree with, but they weren't always actually certifiable.
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