There is a widespread difficulty in the Muslim world, which has to do with how the people are … - Salman Rushdie

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I can disappear into things very easily. But with acting, you have to be in the moment, and it gives me this incredibly fulfilling emotion: being really present.

Salman Rushdie

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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Language is courage: the ability to conceive a thought, to speak it, and by doing so to make it true.

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Those who do not have power over the story that dominates their lives, power to retell it, to rethink it, deconstruct it, joke about it, and change it as times change, truly are powerless, because they cannot think new thoughts.

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The only people who see the whole picture,' he murmured, 'are the ones who step out of the frame.

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Perhaps the story you finish is never the one you begin.

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I reluctantly concluded that there was no way for me to help bring into being the Muslim culture I'd dreamed of, the progressive, irreverent, skeptical, argumentative, playful and unafraid culture which is what I've always understood as freedom. . . . Actually Existing Islam. . . which makes literalism a weapon and redescription a crime, will never let the likes of me in.

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