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Even when things are at their worst, there's a little voice in your head saying, 'Good story!'
Salman Rushdie
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Salman Rushdie
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: June 19
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I grew up in a family in which there was very little religion. My father wasn't religious at all. But he was really interested in the subject of, you know, the birth and growth of Islam. And he basically transmitted that interest to me.
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Dissensions between Muslim nations run at least as deep, if not deeper, than those nations' resentment of the West.
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She saw him fracture into rainbow colors through the prism of her love.
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Sometimes, people trying to commit suicide manage it in a manner that leaves them breathless with astonishment.
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I think, in a written novel, the way in which you play with the readers' emotion or the way in which you engage the readers' emotions can be very indirect. You could come at it through irony or comedy, etcetera, and you could capture people's sympathies and feelings kind of by stealth if you like.
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It may be that the books that were best liked in your lifetime are not the ones that are best liked 100 years later.
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Broad-mindedness is related to tolerance open-mindedness is the sibling of peace.
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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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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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Sometimes I think that when people become famous, there's a public perception that they are not human beings any more. They don't have feelings they don't get hurt you can act and say as you like about them.
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No people whose word for 'yesterday' is the same as their word for 'tomorrow' can be said to have a firm grip on the time.
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I do think there was a period there when my sanity was under intense pressure, and I didn't know what to say or do or how to act. I was literally living from day to day.
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If a birth is the fall-out from the explosion caused by the union of two unstable elements, then perhaps a half-life is all we can expect.
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You don't fight radical conservatism with not-quite-so radical conservatism.
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Anyone who has had the experience of going through American security checks knows the purpose of these checks is not to make you safer it's just to annoy you.
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I determined to make my peace with Islam, even at the cost of my pride. Those who were surprised and displeased by what I did perhaps failed to see that ... I wanted to make peace between the warring halves of the world, which were also the warring halves of my soul.
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My grandmother was very fierce and gruff. She was quite small, but she was very wide.
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What's real and what's true aren't necessarily the same.
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Writers have an opinion about the world and offer arguments about the world. They should offer contemplation.
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I do think that there is such a thing as human nature, and that the things that we have in common are perhaps greater than the things that divide us.
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