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I believe in the art of literature, I believe in freedom of the imagination, I believe in the kind of liberties that we enjoy in these lucky countries of the world.

Salman Rushdie

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Salman Rushdie
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: June 19
Actor
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If you give in to the threat of violence, if you give in to bullying, what you know is that there will be more bullying. There will not be less bullying. If you appease the bully, you make sure that he will bully you some more. Not less. It doesn't solve the problem. It makes the problem worse.
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The history of a culture can be determined by its untranslatable words.
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I'm no friend of Tony Blair's and I consider the Middle East policies of the United States and the UK fatal.
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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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I don't dictate to anyone what to believe and what not to. And I don't want that to be dictated to me either.
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When you're writing for the screen you're really thinking all the time of what you have to do to make sure that they have the information that they need, that the emotional thread is not snapped, that the story moves at the right speed, to keep the audience hopefully sitting on the edge of their seats or else weeping or laughing.
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Rock n' roll was a kid when I was a kid.
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If you take a look at history, you will find that the understanding of what is good and evil has always existed before the individual religions. The religions were only invented by people afterwards, in order to express this idea.
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You never know the answers to the questions of life until you are asked.
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Meaning is a shaky edifice we build out of scraps, dogmas, childhood injuries, newspaper articles, chance remarks, old fillms, small victories, people hated, people loved perhaps it is because our sense of what is the case is constructed from such inadequate materials that we defend it so fiercely, even to death.
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There is no magic on earth strong enough to wipe out the legacies of one's parents.
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You want all your books to stick around after you've gone.
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I will come back to India - so deal with it.
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I am certainly not a good Muslim. But I am able now to say that I am Muslim in fact it is a source of happiness to say that I am now inside, and a part of the community whose values have always been closest to my heart.
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If Woody Allen were a Muslim, he'd be dead by now.
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I've never rejected the world I came from. To be rejected by it is horrible.
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Human beings understand themselves and shape their futures by arguing and challenging and questioning and saying the un-sayable, not by bowing the knee whether to gods or to men.
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