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Salman Rushdie Quotes

What I was trying to show was the creation of extremely violent individuals from people like you and I... Shalimar was a happy, admired performer whose world was smashed, both inside and out. That double fracture provided the fissure for him to slip through. - Salman Rushdie

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Some incredibly important things were being fought for here ... the freedom of the imagination, the great, overwhelming, overarching question of freedom of speech, the right of human beings to walk down the streets of their own country without fear. - Salman Rushdie

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. - Salman Rushdie

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. - Salman Rushdie

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