Indian - Novelist | June 19, 1947 -
Anyone who has had the experience of going through American security checks knows the purpose of these checks is not to make you safer; it's just to annoy you.
Salman Rushdie
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Sometimes you find your voice by trying to write like people, and sometimes you find it by trying to write unlike people.
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A thing that happens to migrants is that they lose many of the traditional things which root identity, which root the self.
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If terrorism is to be defeated, the world of Islam must take on board the secularist-humanist principles on which the modern is based, and without which Muslim countries' freedom will remain a distant dream.
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When you are writing a book, it feels as if you are simply concentrating on the world of the book and that whatever is happening in your personal life is outside the room, as it were. But maybe that's just the way you have to talk to yourself to make it possible.
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A relationship with an imaginary woman is preferable to a relationship with a real one.
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I do have a lot of time for people in my life, and friendship is a very important subject for me. I think I'm unusual among the writers I know in that respect.
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The Muslim population in India is, largely speaking, not radicalised. From the beginning, they were always very secular-minded.
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Look at history. It's not the account of a species at peace.
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The frustrating part of being tagged 'controversial' is people go looking for trouble where there isn't any to look for.
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I remember when I was young, many cities in the Muslim world were cosmopolitan cities with a lot of culture.
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The writers of the French enlightenment had deliberately used blasphemy as a weapon, refusing to accept the power of the Church to set limiting points on thought.
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