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Salman Rushdie
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: June 19
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I didn't become a writer to write about me.
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With death comes honesty.
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Madame Bovary and a flying carpet, they are both untrue in the same way. Somebody made them up.
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One of the things I've learnt is not to depend on there being a woman in your life to make it work. I love my work, I love my children, I've got wonderful friends, you know, I have a nice life.
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Ignorantly is how we all fall in love for it is a kind of fall. Closing our eyes, we leap from that cliff in hope of a soft landing. Nor is it always soft but still, without that leap nobody comes to life.
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Whores and writers, Mahound. We are the people you can't forgive.
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We must conclude that it is not only a particular political ideology that has failed, but the idea that men and women could ever define themselves in terms that exclude their spiritual needs.
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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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Our lives, our stories, flowed into one another's, were no longer our own, individual, discrete.
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I seem to have fallen for women with missing parents. Goodness knows what it signifies.
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What had been (at the beginning) no bigger than a full stop had expanded into a comma, a word, a sentence, a paragraph, a chapter now it was bursting into more complex developments, becoming, one might say, a book - perhaps an encylopaedia - even a whole language.
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There was a series called 'Game of Thrones' which was very popular here in the United States, a post-Tolkien kind of thing. It was garbage, yet very addictive garbage - because there's lots of violence, all the women take their clothes off all the time, and it's kind of fun.
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I have no problem with people's religious beliefs. I just don't happen to have any.
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My heart broke open and history fell in.
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It just requires so much of you, and most of the time you feel dumb.
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The mistake of the West was to put the Sauds on the throne of Saudi Arabia and give them control of the world's oil fortune, which they then used to propagate Wahhabi Islam.
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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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When thought becomes excessively painful, action is the finest remedy.
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The only privilege literature deserves - and this privilege it requires in order to exist - is the privilege of being in the arena of discourse, the place where the struggle of our languages can be acted out.
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When you're writing for the screen you're really thinking all the time of what you have to do to make sure that they have the information that they need, that the emotional thread is not snapped, that the story moves at the right speed, to keep the audience hopefully sitting on the edge of their seats or else weeping or laughing.
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