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I determined to make my peace with Islam, even at the cost of my pride. Those who were surprised and displeased by what I did perhaps failed to see that... I wanted to make peace between the warring halves of the world, which were also the warring halves of my soul.
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He would dream of discovering a magic optometrist from whom he would purchase a pair of green-tinged spectacles which would correct his regrettable myopia, and after that he would be able to see through the dense, blinding air to the fabulous world beneath.
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Islam doesn't have to mean blind faith. It can mean what it always meant in your family, a culture, a civilization, as open-minded as your grandfather was, as delightedly disputatious as your father was.... Don't let the zealots make Muslim a terrifying word, I urged myself; remember when it meant family.
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If somebody's trying to shut you up, sing louder, and if possible, better.
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Born:
June 19, 1947
(age 77)
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Sir Ahmad Salman Rushdie is a British Indian novelist and essayist. His second novel, Midnight's Children, won the Booker Prize in 1981. Much of his fiction is set on the Indian subcontinent.
Known for:
The Satanic Verses (1988)
Midnight's Children (1981)
Joseph Anton: A Memoir (2012)
Haroun and the Sea of Stories (1990)
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