"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."
― Salman Rushdie
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Age
More From Salman Rushdie
- "The only way of living in a free society is to feel that you have the right to say and do stuff."
- "What one writer can make in the solitude of one room is something no power can easily destroy."
- "The idea of the sacred is quite simply one of the most conservative notions in any culture, because it seeks to turn other ideas – uncertainty, progress, change – into crimes."
More In Age
- "I was apprehensive. I feared every time I talked about poetry, it would be filtered through the lens of race, sex, and age."― Rita Dove
- "English people don’t have very good diction. In France you have to pronounce very particularly and clearly, and learning French at an early age helped me enormously."― Vivien Leigh
- "I wanted to be a forest ranger or a coal man. At a very early age, I knew I didn’t want to do what my dad did, which was work in an office."― Harrison Ford