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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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Salman Rushdie
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: June 19
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Out-of-step intellectuals like Noam Chomsky and the deceased Edward Said have often been dismissed as crazy extremists, 'anti-American,' and in Mr. Said's case even, absurdly, as apologists for Palestinian 'terrorism.'
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A man who catches History's eye is thereafter bound to a mistress from whom he will never escape.
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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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A people that has remained convinced of its greatness and invulnerability, that has chosen to believe such a myth in the face of all the evidence, is a people in the grip of a kind of sleep, or madness.
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One of the things I've thought about 'Midnight's Children' is that it is a novel which puts a Muslim family at the centre of the Indian experience.
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Human beings, you see, do absolutely two primary things. We see like and unlike. Like becomes, in literature, simile and metaphor. Unlike becomes uniqueness and difference, from which I believe, the novel is born.
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If by some bizarre chance there turns out to be a god [...], I'm willing to bet he's an atheist too.
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I seem to have fallen for women with missing parents. Goodness knows what it signifies.
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Language upon a silvered tongue affords enchantment enough.
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Not even the visionary or mystical experience ever lasts very long. It is for art to capture that experience, to offer it to, in the case of literature, its readers to be, for a secular, materialist culture, some sort of replacement for what the love of god offers in the world of faith.
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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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I'm not a big fan of there being voiceovers in movies. I really prefer it when the film tells it story.
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Something was badly amiss with the spiritual life of the planet...Too many demons inside people claiming to believe in God.
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So India’s problem turns out to be the world’s problem. What happened in India has happened in God’s name. The problem’s name is God.
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Too many people had spent too long demonizing or totemizing me to listen seriously to what I had to say.
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