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When thought becomes excessively painful, action is the finest remedy.
Salman Rushdie
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Salman Rushdie
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: June 19
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I don't know what to say about literary critics. I think it's probably best to say nothing.
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Travel was pointless. It removed you from the place in which you had a meaning, and to which you gave meaning in return by dedicating your life to it, and it spirited you away into fairylands where you were, and looked, frankly absurd.
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Religion is responsible for a lot of the problems in the history of the world and it's not something that I practice or recommend, but to each his own.
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I stand with Charlie Hebdo, as we all must, to defend the art of satire.
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The west was involved in toppling the Mossadegh government. That ultimately led to the Iranian revolution.
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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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If the creative artist worries if he will still be free tomorrow, then he will not be free today.
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I am clearly vulnerable to these more passionate and volatile unstable relationships. I am trying to not be so vulnerable.
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What happened in Pakistan was that people were told: You're all Muslim, so now you're a country. As we saw in 1971 with the Bangladesh secession, the answer to that was: 'Oh no, we're not.'
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I don't think I've ever quite grown out of it, actually. There was a point where I could recite some of those Elvish verses - which I've mercifully forgotten. But I can still, if really pushed, recite the text of the inside of the ruling ring in the language of Mordor.
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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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There was a series called 'Game of Thrones' which was very popular here in the United States, a post-Tolkien kind of thing. It was garbage, yet very addictive garbage - because there's lots of violence, all the women take their clothes off all the time, and it's kind of fun.
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Sometimes you find your voice by trying to write like people, and sometimes you find it by trying to write unlike people.
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I have to say that after some initial resistance, I'm now a complete 'Game of Thrones' addict.
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I hate admitting that my enemies have a point.
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I saw Quentin Tarantino's 'Django Unchained,' and you could say a lot of things against it, but it was incredible fun. I don't like blood and gore and I am very squeamish about violence, but Tarantino's violence is actually funny.
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I always thought storytelling was like juggling [...] You keep a lot of different tales in the air, and juggle them up and down, and if you're good you don't drop any.
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I do think that there is such a thing as human nature, and that the things that we have in common are perhaps greater than the things that divide us.
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I think it's a very important function of art to challenge accepted reality, especially when that reality is created by powerful interest groups.
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