Indian - Novelist | June 19, 1947 -
The Koran was revealed at a time of great change in the Arab world, the seventh-century shift from a matriarchal nomadic culture to an urban patriarchal system.
Salman Rushdie
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The great concern is that year after year, rising numbers of journalists are being killed in pursuit of their work. They are increasingly seen as not being neutral but rather as combatants by one side or the other.
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It's true that the human body is more vulnerable than the products of the human mind.
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The thing I really like about Twitter is the speed with which information reaches me. You find out things from Twitter long before they're on the news. That, I think, is valuable.
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The Republicans were not always insane. They might've had politics I didn't agree with, but they weren't always actually certifiable.
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Every time you finish a book, you have a terrible feeling that there's just never going to be another one. But fortunately, so far, the next one has always shown up.
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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.
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The publishing of a book is a worldwide event. The attempt to suppress a book is a worldwide event.
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The West sees Iran as an important force in the gulf.
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A novel, I think, is partly about the contemporary and partly about the eternal, and it's the balance of that that's difficult to achieve.
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A mature society understands that at the heart of democracy is argument.
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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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