The enemy for the fanatic is pleasure, which makes it extremely import…

Salman Rushdie
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The enemy for the fanatic is pleasure, which makes it extremely important to continue to indulge in pleasure. Dance madly. That is how you get rid of terrorism. ✨ Salman Rushdie Discusses The Role Of The Novel In The Era Of 24-Hour News In Talk At CU-Boulder by Joe Rubino, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 18, 2013.
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When you know what you're against you have taken the first step to discovering what you're for. ✨ Salman Rushdie (2000). The Ground Beneath Her Feet: A Novel, p.223, Macmillan
You don't fight radical conservatism with not-quite-so radical conservatism. ✨ Salman Rushdie: Inside the Mind of Jihadists. Interview with Nathan Gardels, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 25, 2011.
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. ✨ Salman Rushdie: My family values. Interview … ▶
Abraham Zogoiby covered his face that night in August 1939 because he had been assailed by fear, [...] a sudden apprehension that the ugliness of life might defeat its beauty; that love did not make … ▶
Whores and writers, Mahound. We are the people you can't forgive. ✨ Salman Rushdie (1989). The Satanic Verses, New York, N.Y. : Viking

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