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Too many people had spent too long demonizing or totemizing me to listen seriously to what I had to say.

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Salman Rushdie
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: June 19
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What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist. Without the freedom to challenge, even to satirize all orthodoxies, it ceases to exist. Language and the imagination cannot be imprisoned, or art will die, and with it, a little of what makes us human.
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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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When thought becomes excessively painful, action is the finest remedy.
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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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Rock and roll music - the music of freedom frightens people and unleashes all manner of conservative defense mechanisms.
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