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A mature society understands that at the heart of democracy is argument.
Salman Rushdie
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Salman Rushdie
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: June 19
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Bombay
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I'm no friend of Tony Blair's and I consider the Middle East policies of the United States and the UK fatal.
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When you write you in a way write out of what you think of as your best self, the part of you that is lacking in foibles and weaknesses and egotism and vanities and so on. You're just trying to really say something as truthful as you can out of the best that you have in you.
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If you actually want to change your world, there is a better way of doing it than blowing yourself up.
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When you write, you write out of your best self. Everything else drops away.
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Literature is where I go to explore the highest and lowest places in human society and in the human spirit, where I hope to find not absolute truth but the truth of the tale, of the imagination and of the heart.
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The accidents of my life have given me the ability to make stories in which different parts of the world are brought together, sometimes harmoniously, sometimes in conflict, and sometimes both - usually both. The difficulty in these stories is that if you write about everywhere you can end up writing about nowhere.
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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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I want more than what I want. (Vina Apsara)
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All my adult life, if I didn't have several hours a day to sit in a room by myself, I would get antsy and irritable.
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What's the use of stories that aren't even true?
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To be born again,' sang Gibreal Farishta tumbling from the heaveans, 'first you have to die. Ho ji! Ho ji! To land upon the bosomy earth, first one needs to fly Tat-taa! Takatun! How to ever smile again, if first you won't cry? How to win the darling's love mister, without a sigh?
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In the end, you write the book that grabs you by the throat and demands to be written.
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What I've always seen in writers and artists is the courage it takes to make an original work of art. I think the real risks in literature are linguistic and intellectual, and I hope we can highlight those, as well as political courage.
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I don't dictate to anyone what to believe and what not to. And I don't want that to be dictated to me either.
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Rock n' roll was a kid when I was a kid.
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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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The sixty-minute drama form has become very rich.
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It is very, very easy not to be offended by a book. You just have to shut it.
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Free-form games in which the player can make choices about what the game is going to be, become a kind of gaming equivalent of the narrative possibility.
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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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