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- After a long, hopeless war, people will settle for peace, at almost any price.
- I do not envy people who think they have a complete explanation of the world, for the simple reason that they are obviously wrong.
- One of the problems with defending free speech is you often have to defend people that you find to be outrageous and unpleasant and disgusting.
- Rock and roll music - the music of freedom frightens people and unleashes all manner of conservative defense mechanisms.
- The world is full of things that upset people. But most of us deal with it and move on and don't try and burn the…
- In a novel, if you're any good, you don't just have good people or bad people. You have complicated people. You have real people.
- I don't think people cry reading 'Midnight's Children,' but a lot of people seem to cry watching the movie.
- It is often said by religious people that without its framework, there is no sense of right or wrong. My view is that religion comes…
- Killing people because you don't like their ideas - it's a bad thing.
- People are always telling me that they've seen people reading my books on the subway, or the beach, or whenever.
- Sometimes you find your voice by trying to write like people, and sometimes you find it by trying to write unlike people.
- The frustrating part of being tagged 'controversial' is people go looking for trouble where there isn't any to look for.
- The people suffering most from the Taliban were Afghans.
- It's so disappointing, to put it mildly, that people know so much about my life. Because it means that they're always trying to look at…
- But there's one thing we must all be clear about: terrorism is not the pursuit of legitimate goals by some sort of illegitimate means. Whatever…
- 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…
- Someone asked me if I was afraid to write my memoirs. I told him: 'We have to stop drawing up accounts of fear! We live…
- Actually, I don't even like parties. I would much prefer a room with four friends who sit around and have dinner. I detest nightclubs. And…
- As a writer, one of the things we all learned from the movies was a kind of compression that didn't exist before people were used…
- Certainly, poverty and economic decline have a lot to do with the so-called rage of Islam. You've got all these young men in countries which…
- I do have a lot of time for people in my life, and friendship is a very important subject for me. I think I'm unusual…
- I think, in a written novel, the way in which you play with the readers' emotion or the way in which you engage the readers'…
- I've never seen anywhere in the world as beautiful as Kashmir. It has something to do with the fact that the valley is very small…
- If the culture shifts, if people think differently about women, the art will shift, too. You can't ask art to make social change. It's not…
- If you look at Indian movies, every time they wanted an exotic locale, they would have a dance number in Kashmir. Kashmir was India's fairyland.…
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