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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.

Salman Rushdie

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Salman Rushdie
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: June 19
Actor
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Bombay
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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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We who have grown up on a diet of honour and shame can still grasp what must seem unthinkable to people living in the aftermath of the death of God and of tragedy: that men will sacrifice their dearest love on the implacable altars of their pride.
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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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I don't know what to say about literary critics. I think it's probably best to say nothing.
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Most of what matters in your life takes place in your absence.
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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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I do not need the idea of God to explain the world I live in.
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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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The mistake of the West was to put the Sauds on the throne of Saudi Arabia and give them control of the world's oil fortune, which they then used to propagate Wahhabi Islam.
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How to forgive the world for its beauty, which merely disguises its ugliness for its gentleness, which merely cloaks its cruelty for its illusion of continuity, seamlessly, as the night follows the day, so to speak- whereas in reality life is a series of brutal raptures, falling upon your defenseless hands, like the blows of a woodman's axe?
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It's a terrible thing that your life turns into a good story.
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When you throw everything up in the air anything becomes possible.
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A man is sane only to the extent that he subscribes to a previously-agreed construction of reality.
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I think if we wish to live in any kind of a moral universe, we must hold the perpetrators of violence responsible for the violence they perpetrate. It's very simple. The criminal is responsible for the crime.
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Life is elsewhere. Cross frontiers. Fly away.
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One of the things a writer is for is to say the unsayable, speak the unspeakable and ask difficult questions.
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When I'm writing a book, sentence by sentence, I'm not thinking theoretically. I'm just trying to work out the story from inside the characters I've got.
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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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Between shame and shamelessness lies the axis upon which we turn meteorological conditions at both these poles are of the most extreme, ferocious type. Shamelessness, shame: the roots of violence.
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No people whose word for 'yesterday' is the same as their word for 'tomorrow' can be said to have a firm grip on the time.
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