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I used to say, 'There is a God-shaped hole in me.' For a long time I stressed the absence, the hole. Now I find it is the shape which has become more important.

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Vertigo is the conflict between the fear of falling and the desire to fall.

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I'm not saying I am never going to fall in love again, but there is no need to marry.

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We live in a frightened time, and people self-censor all the time and are afraid of going into some subjects because they are worried about violent reactions.

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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.

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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.

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Broad-mindedness is related to tolerance; open-mindedness is the sibling of peace.

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I think that a lot of us, whether we are religious or not - there are no words to express some things except religious words. For instance, 'soul.'

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Most of what matters in your life takes place in your absence.

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Like everybody else, I've had relationships in which I was passionately in love but was completely miserable all the time and didn't trust the person I was in love with one inch.

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A relationship with an imaginary woman is preferable to a relationship with a real one.

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Doubt, it seems to me, is the central condition of a human being in the twentieth century.

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The gamble of literature is that I make the best work I can; the most truthful, the most representative of how I see things. I try and do that, and then I put it out there and say to you, 'What do you think?' I hope that you think well of it, obviously.

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I never thought of myself as a writer about religion until a religion came after me.

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Pakistan is alarmed by the rising Indian influence in Afghanistan, and fears that an Afghanistan cleansed of the Taliban would be an Indian client state, thus sandwiching Pakistan between two hostile countries. The paranoia of Pakistan about India's supposed dark machinations should never be underestimated.

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In Iran, fundamentalism was fuelled to an extent by the regime of the Shah being supported by the West.

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People must be protected from prejudice against their person. But people cannot be protected from prejudice against their ideas - because otherwise we're all done.

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I did a lot of student acting when I was young.

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Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself.

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When I'm writing a book, sentence by sentence, I'm not thinking theoretically. I'm just trying to work out the story from inside the characters I've got.

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One of the strange things about violent and authoritarian regimes is they don't like the glare of negative publicity.

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In this world without quiet corners, there can be no easy escapes from history, from hullabaloo, from terrible, unquiet fuss.

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Rock and roll music - the music of freedom frightens people and unleashes all manner of conservative defense mechanisms.

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Memory is a way of telling you what's important to you.

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If my child had prejudice in his head, I'd be ashamed. I would see it as my failure as a parent.

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Writers and politicians are natural rivals. Both groups try to make the world in their own images; they fight for the same territory.

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In the movies, the writer is just the servant, the employee.

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The world is always terrible.

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This strange business of what it is to be a writer is this increasingly insane world in which we live, in which surrealism, it seems, is the new realism.

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My grandmother was very fierce and gruff. She was quite small, but she was very wide.

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Such is the miraculous nature of the future of exiles: what is first uttered in the impotence of an overheated apartment becomes the fate of nations.

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I accept there are people out there who don't like me. I don't like them.

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In the real world, immeasurable hurt is caused by terrorists based in Pakistan who attack countries like India.

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One of the extraordinary things about human events is that the unthinkable becomes thinkable.

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One of the things I've learnt is not to depend on there being a woman in your life to make it work. I love my work, I love my children, I've got wonderful friends, you know, I have a nice life.

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If I were asked for a one-sentence sound bite on religion, I would say I was against it.

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