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Everybody loves 'The Wire,' and I think it's okay, but in the end it's just a police series.

Salman Rushdie

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Salman Rushdie
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: June 19
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When you write, you write out of your best self. Everything else drops away.
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The history of a culture can be determined by its untranslatable words.
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Life is elsewhere. Cross frontiers. Fly away.
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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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If by some bizarre chance there turns out to be a god [...], I'm willing to bet he's an atheist too.
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You can't assume if you do something contentious that people will be on your side. The moment violence enters the story, the story changes. Then the question is, How do you face up to violence? And then you have to have a no-compromise position. And this is quite simply a lesson we learn in the school playground.
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Free societies are societies in motion, and with motion comes friction.
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Human beings understand themselves and shape their futures by arguing and challenging and questioning and saying the un-sayable, not by bowing the knee whether to gods or to men.
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It doesn't matter whether characters are real people or not if they're not vivid on the page, then the reader doesn't care about them that much, and, if the reader doesn't care about them that much, then they don't care what happens to them.
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I don't think there is a need for an entity like God in my life.
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Pakistan is alarmed by the rising Indian influence in Afghanistan, and fears that an Afghanistan cleansed of the Taliban would be an Indian client state, thus sandwiching Pakistan between two hostile countries. The paranoia of Pakistan about India's supposed dark machinations should never be underestimated.
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[My work] is a love song to our mongrel selves.
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