What do you most value in your friends?Their continued existence.

~ Christopher Hitchens

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So India’s problem turns out to be the world’s problem. What happened in India has happened in God’s name.The problem’s name is God.

~ Salman Rushdie

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Books choose their authors, the act of creation is not entirely a rational and conscious one.

~ Salman Rushdie

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In a public dialogue with Salman in London he [Edward Said] had once described the Palestinian plight as one where his people, expelled and dispossessed by Jewish victors, were in the unique historical position of being 'the victims of the victims': there was something quasi-Christian, I thought, in the apparent humility of that statement.

~ Christopher Hitchens

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Among the great struggles of man-good/evil, reason/unreason, etc.-there is also this mighty conflict between the fantasy of Home and the fantasy of Away, the dream of roots and the mirage of the journey.

~ Salman Rushdie

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Your potentials are called POTENTIALS because they are POTENT. Don't make them IMPOTENT by being IMPATIENT. Make an IMPACT.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

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The moment you say that any idea system is sacred, whether it’s a religious belief system or a secular ideology, the moment you declare a set of ideas to be immune from criticism, satire, derision, or contempt, freedom of thought becomes impossible.

~ Salman Rushdie

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