Salman Rushdie
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Salman Rushdie (born Ahmed Salman Rushdie, Urdu: أحمد سلمان رشدی, Hindi: अह्मद सलमान रश्डी on June 19, 1947) is an Indian-born British essayist and author of fiction, most of which is set on the Indian subcontinent.
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- The idea of the sacred is quite simply one of the most conservative notions in any culture, because it seeks to turn other ideas -- uncertainty, progress, change -- into crimes.
- Herbert Reade Memorial Lecture (February 6, 1990)
- I've been worrying about God a little bit lately. It seems as if he's been lashing out, you know, destroying cities, annihilating places. It seems like he's been in a bad mood. And I think it has to do with the quality of lovers he's been getting. If you look at the people who love God now, you know, if I was God, I'd need to destroy something.
- Real Time with Bill Maher TV show (October 7, 2005)
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- In regards to that unpleasantness between me and the Ayatollah some years ago... well, at least one of us is dead.
- From an address at the University of Iowa, 2004
- What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it cease to exist.
- From The Swedish "Censorship" Homepage
- I don't think there is a need for an entity like God in my life.
- From an interview with David Frost.
- I do not envy people who think they have a complete explanation of the world, for the simple reason that they are obviously wrong.
- From an interview with David Frost (PBS)
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See also
Novels by Salman Rushdie:
- Midnight's Children (1980)
- The Satanic Verses (1988)
- Haroun and the Sea of Stories (1990)
- The Ground Beneath Her Feet (1999)
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External links
- Vernon Corea The Golden Voice of Radio Ceylon — includes Rushdie interviews
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