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Salman Rushdie

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Persahabatan

Friendships are the family we make - not the one we inherit. I've always been someone to whom friendship, elective affinities, is as important as family.

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Kegagalan

How do you defeat terrorism? Don't be terrorized.

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Waktu

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.

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Waktu

If you actually want to change your world, there is a better way of doing it than blowing yourself up.

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Keberanian

Vertigo is the conflict between the fear of falling and the desire to fall.

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Perjuangan

What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.

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Kreativitas

Rock and roll music - the music of freedom frightens people and unleashes all manner of conservative defense mechanisms.

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Harapan

Such is the miraculous nature of the future of exiles: what is first uttered in the impotence of an overheated apartment becomes the fate of nations.

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Doa

I do not need the idea of God to explain the world I live in.

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Kreativitas

What distinguishes a great artist from a weak one is first their sensibility and tenderness second, their imagination, and third, their industry.

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Cinta

I've never had very high regard for therapists. I owe my health, my mental survival, to my friends and loved ones.

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Kehidupan

Throughout human history, the apostles of purity, those who have claimed to possess a total explanation, have wrought havoc among mere mixed-up human beings.

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Nasihat

If you take a look at history, you will find that the understanding of what is good and evil has always existed before the individual religions. The religions were only invented by people afterwards, in order to express this idea.

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Kehidupan

In this world without quiet corners, there can be no easy escapes from history, from hullabaloo, from terrible, unquiet fuss.

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Pendidikan

There is a widespread difficulty in the Muslim world, which has to do with how the people are taught about examining their own history. A whole range of stuff has been placed off limits.

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Kreativitas

A poet's work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it going to sleep.

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Kreativitas

What one writer can make in the solitude of one room is something no power can easily destroy.

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Kehidupan

If I were asked for a one-sentence sound bite on religion, I would say I was against it.

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Keluarga

I was 21 in 1968, so I'm as much a child of the '60s as is possible to be. In those years the subject of religion had really almost disappeared the idea that religion was going to be a major force in the life of our societies, in the West anyway, would have seemed absurd in 1968.

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Kehidupan

The only way of living in a free society is to feel that you have the right to say and do stuff.

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