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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 and the mountains are very big, so you have this miniature countryside surrounded by the Himalayas, and it's just spectacular. And it's true, the people are very beautiful too.

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There is no such thing as perfect security, only varying levels of insecurity.

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An attack upon our ability to tell stories is not just censorship - it is a crime against our nature as human beings.

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Sometimes legends make reality, and become more useful than the facts.

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There is nothing intrinsic linking any religion with any act of violence. The crusades don't prove that Christianity was violent. The Inquisition doesn't prove that Christianity tortures people. But that Christianity did torture people.

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Free societies are societies in motion, and with motion comes friction.

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

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You can take the boy out of Bombay; you can't take Bombay out of the boy, you know.

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

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I am on Facebook, but mainly as a way to spy on my children. I find out more about them from their Facebook pages than from what they tell me.

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Biography

Nationality: Indian

Type: Novelist

Born: June 19th, 1947

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