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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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It is very, very easy not to be offended by a book. You just have to shut it.
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As a writer, one of the things we all learned from the movies was a kind of compression that didn't exist before people were used to watching films. For instance, if you wanted to write a flashback in a novel, you once had to really contextualize it a lot, to set it up. Now, readers know exactly what you're doing. Close-ups, too.
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The worst, most insidious effect of censorship is that, in the end, it can deaden the imagination of the people. Where there is no debate, it is hard to go on remembering, every day, that there is a suppressed side to every argument.
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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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A man who invents himself needs someone to believe in him... Not only the need to be believed in, but the need to believe in another. You've got it: Love.
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If Woody Allen were a Muslim, he'd be dead by now.
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Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself.
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