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A novel, I think, is partly about the contemporary and partly about the eternal, and it's the balance of that that's difficult to achieve.
Salman Rushdie
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Salman Rushdie
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: June 19
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But love is what we want, not freedom. Who then is the unluckier man? The beloved, who is given his heart's desire and must for ever after fear its loss, or the free man, with his unlooked-for liberty, naked and alone between the captive armies of the earth?
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I want more than what I want. (Vina Apsara)
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Liberate yourself, because no one else is going to liberate you
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Human beings do not perceive things whole we are not gods but wounded creatures, cracked lenses, capably only of fractured perceptions. Partial beings, in all the senses of that phrase.
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Most of what matters in your life takes place in your absence.
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I seem to have fallen for women with missing parents. Goodness knows what it signifies.
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When you throw everything up in the air anything becomes possible.
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If I were dead, then nobody in England would have to fuss about the cost of my security and whether or not I merited such special treatment for so long.
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What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.
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I have been a film buff all my life and believe that the finest cinema is fully the equal of the best novels.
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Certainly, poverty and economic decline have a lot to do with the so-called rage of Islam. You've got all these young men in countries which are economically in bad shape. The idea that they might be able to make a good living and get married and have a family, a decent life, seems very remote to a lot of people in a lot of the world.
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It may be argued that the past is a country from which we have all emigrated, that its loss is part of our common humanity.
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If love is a yearning to be like (even to become) the beloved, then hatred, it must be said, can be engendered by the same ambition, when it cannot be fulfilled.
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Things, even people have a way of leaking into each other like flavours when you cook.
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Khattam-Shud,' he said slowly, 'is the Arch-Enemy of all Stories, even of language itself. He is the Prince of Silence and the Foe of Speech. And because everything ends, because dreams end, stories end, life ends, at the finish of everything we use his name. It's finished, we tell one another, it's over. Khattam-Shud: The End.
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There is nothing like a War for the reinvention of lives.
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Such is the miraculous nature of the future of exiles: what is first uttered in the impotence of an overheated apartment becomes the fate of nations.
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A man is sane only to the extent that he subscribes to a previously-agreed construction of reality.
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I discovered that if you find the language to talk to younger readers, children can accept anything.
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For a fellow who's not to much to look at, you have the instincts of a champion.
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