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Many of us didn't believe in the image of bin Laden as a wandering Old Man of the Mountains, living on plants and insects in an inhospitable cave somewhere on the porous Pakistan-Afghan border. (Salman Rushdie)
Broad-mindedness is related to tolerance; open-mindedness is the sibling of peace. View quote
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All my adult life, if I didn't have several hours a day to sit in a room by myself, I would get antsy and irritable. View quote
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The publishing of a book is a worldwide event. The attempt to suppress a book is a worldwide event. View quote
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The West sees Iran as an important force in the gulf. View quote
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The difference between memoir and autobiography, as far as I see it, is that a memoir is there primarily to tell one particular story, whereas an autobiography tries to be a full account of a life. View quote
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If the creative artist worries if he will still be free tomorrow, then he will not be free today. View quote
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There is no such thing as perfect security, only varying levels of insecurity. View quote
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Hyperrealism can create an atmosphere of surrealism because nobody sees the world in such detail. View quote
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British society has never been cleansed of the filth of imperialism. View quote
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A mature society understands that at the heart of democracy is argument. (Salman Rushdie)
It is literature which for me opened the mysterious and decisive doors of imagination and understanding. To see the way others see. To think the way others think. And above all, to feel. View quote
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It seems that the right of freedom of speech that was enshrined in numerous constitutions is now under attack by religious institutions. View quote
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We are the storytelling animal. View quote
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An attack upon our ability to tell stories is not just censorship - it is a crime against our nature as human beings. View quote
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The only thing worse than a bad review from the Ayatollah Khomeini would be a good review from the Ayatollah Khomeini. View quote
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Even when things are at their worst, there's a little voice in your head saying, 'Good story!' View quote
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Doris Lessing really doesn't care what the critics say. In fact, she orders her publishers not to send her the reviews and gets cross with them if they do because she doesn't want that in her head. She's going where she's going, and that's where she wants to go. View quote
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The miniatures of the Mughal period are really the pinnacle of Indian artistic achievement. And not a single one of those paintings is done by an individual artist. View quote
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One of the reasons my name is Rushdie is that my father was an admirer of Ibn Rush'd, the 12th century Arab philosopher known as Averroes in the West. In his time, he was making the non-literalist case for interpreting the Koran. View quote
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I have been a film buff all my life and believe that the finest cinema is fully the equal of the best novels. (Salman Rushdie)
What I worry about and don't like is the way in which the ideology of multiculturalism has declined into cultural relativism. I think that's very dangerous. When the Archbishop of Canterbury, for God's sake, says that you can't have one law for everybody... that's stupid. View quote
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Airport security exists to guard us against terrorist attacks. View quote
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American literature has always been immigrant. View quote
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This strange business of what it is to be a writer is this increasingly insane world in which we live, in which surrealism, it seems, is the new realism. View quote
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