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Too many people had spent too ...

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

Salman Rushdie 630 quotes

What is needed is a move beyon...

What is needed is a move beyond tradition, nothing less than a reform movement to bring the core concepts of Islam into the modern age, a Muslim Reformation to combat not only the jihadist ideologues but also the dusty, stifling seminaries of the traditionalists, throwing open the windows to let in much-needed fresh air.... It is high time, for starters, that Muslims were able to study the revelation of their religion as an event inside history, not supernaturally above it.... Broad-mindedness is related to tolerance;

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When I was growing up, everyon...

When I was growing up, everyone around me was fond of fooling around with words. It was certainly common in my family, but I think it is typical of Bombay, and maybe of India, that there is a sense of play in the way people use language.

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Why speak if you can't manage ...

Why speak if you can't manage perfect thoughts, perfect sentences?

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Liberate yourself, because no ...

Liberate yourself, because no one else is going to liberate you

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Our lives are not what we dese...

Our lives are not what we deserve; they are, let us agree, in many ways deficient.

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In the cookie of life, friends...

In the cookie of life, friends are the chocolate chips.

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Home is the place where you fe...

Home is the place where you feel happy.

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I make no complaint. I am a wr...

I make no complaint. I am a writer. I do not accept my condition; I will strive to change it; but I inhabit it, I am trying to learn from it.

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Between the adored and the ado...

Between the adored and the adorer falls the shadow.

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I've never read anything so ba...

I've never read anything so badly written that got published. It made 'Twilight' look like 'War and Peace.'

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No, I don't think it's fair to...

No, I don't think it's fair to label Islam 'violent.' But I will say that to my knowledge, no writer has ever gone into hiding for criticizing the Amish.

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I stand with Charlie Hebdo, as...

I stand with Charlie Hebdo, as we all must, to defend the art of satire, which has always been a force for liberty and against tyranny, dishonesty and stupidity.

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thought I was doing two things...

thought I was doing two things. One is inquiring into the phenomenon of revelation, if you are not a religious person. But, clearly, it's a sincere phenomenon.

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I always thought the front lin...

I always thought the front line was the bookstores. And bookstores around America, around the world did astonishingly well. They held the line. They didn't chicken out. You know, they defended the book. They kept it in the front of the store.

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And using that - the birth of ...

And using that - the birth of a religion, it suggests that you have got two tests. You have the test of weakness. When you're weak, do you compromise, do you bend, do you give in, do you accommodate? And then the test of strength. When you're strong, are you merciful, are you generous, or are you cruel?

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I thought, you know, I would p...

I thought, you know, I would probably not have seen that. On the other hand, he's obviously completely telling the truth. So, then what is that? That's - I wanted to explore that. And then I wanted to talk about how ideas are born. And the big question that the book asks in a number of ways about a number of things is that. How does a new idea come into the world?

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If you were standing next to t...

If you were standing next to the prophet on the mountain, would you have seen the archangel? And my answer to that was probably not, even though it's supposed to be a really big archangel. He describes it as - the Archangel Gabriel as standing on the horizon and filling the sky. That's a big angel.

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So when I studied history at C...

So when I studied history at Cambridge, I did a special subject in that, exactly that. And then actually that - while I was studying it was where I came across the so-called incident of the satanic verses.

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The USA approach looks like bu...

The USA approach looks like bullying because it is.

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