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When you write, you write out of your best self. Everything else drops away.

Salman Rushdie

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Salman Rushdie
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: June 19
Actor
Essayist
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Bombay
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Joseph Anton
Sir Ahmed Salman Rushdie
Best
Everything
Self
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Hell is other people's fantasies.
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Religion, a mediaeval form of unreason, when combined with modern weaponry becomes a real threat to our freedoms. This religious totalitarianism has caused a deadly mutation in the heart of Islam and we see the tragic consequences in Paris today.
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The novel does not seek to establish a privileged language but it insists upon the freedom to portray and analyze the struggle between the different contestants for such privileges.
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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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Broad-mindedness is related to tolerance open-mindedness is the sibling of peace.
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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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Some people are paralyzed by the consciousness of death, other people live with it.... The fatwa certainly made me think about it a lot more than I ever had. I guess I know I'm going to die, but then, so are you.
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The answer to religion is not no religion, but another way of thinking of it. Another way of being in it.
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I always thought the front line was the bookstores. And bookstores around America, around the world did astonishingly well. They held the line. They didn't chicken out. You know, they defended the book. They kept it in the front of the store.
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Live on, survive, for the earth gives forth wonders. It may swallow your heart, but the wonders keep on coming. You stand before them bareheaded, shriven. What is expected of you is attention.
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thought I was doing two things. One is inquiring into the phenomenon of revelation, if you are not a religious person. But, clearly, it's a sincere phenomenon.
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I do not need the idea of God to explain the world I live in.
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I've never had very high regard for therapists. I owe my health, my mental survival, to my friends and loved ones.
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Anyone who has had the experience of going through American security checks knows the purpose of these checks is not to make you safer it's just to annoy you.
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With death comes honesty.
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Life is lived forward but is judged in reverse.
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[My work] is a love song to our mongrel selves.
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I want to write novels. I want to write stories. I want to do the stuff that I became a writer to do.
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Liberate yourself, because no one else is going to liberate you
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