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Salman Rushdie
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: June 19
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Not all possibilities are open to us. The world is finite our hopes spill over its rim.
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I stand with Charlie Hebdo, as we all must, to defend the art of satire.
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What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist. Without the freedom to challenge, even to satirize all orthodoxies, it ceases to exist. Language and the imagination cannot be imprisoned, or art will die, and with it, a little of what makes us human.
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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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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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England in a way is lucky. It's an island, so the frontiers are given by the sea.
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Like everybody else, I've had relationships in which I was passionately in love but was completely miserable all the time and didn't trust the person I was in love with one inch.
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There is no magic on earth strong enough to wipe out the legacies of one's parents.
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Religion, a mediaeval form of unreason, when combined with modern weaponry becomes a real threat to our freedoms.
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Life is lived forward but is judged in reverse.
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I'm a novelist. Fortunately I don't have to rule the world.
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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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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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My love for Dan Brown knows no bounds. It literally has no mass.
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I do not read the works of Salman Rushdie, I write them. By the time I have finished writing them all I can think of is never reading them again. It's so deep, your involvement with a book, that once it's finished, then you are really done with it.
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[My work] is a love song to our mongrel selves.
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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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To see things plainly, you have to cross a frontier.
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Friendships are the family we make - not the one we inherit. I've always been someone to whom friendship, elective affinities, is as important as family.
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Home has become such a scattered, damaged, various concept in our present travails. There is so much to yearn for. There are so few rainbows any more.
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