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I don't know what to say about literary critics. I think it's probably best to say nothing.
Salman Rushdie
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Salman Rushdie
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: June 19
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That's the trouble with you sad-city types: a place has to be miserable and dull as ditchwater before you believe it's real.
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When you write you in a way write out of what you think of as your best self, the part of you that is lacking in foibles and weaknesses and egotism and vanities and so on. You're just trying to really say something as truthful as you can out of the best that you have in you.
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We have come to think of taking offence as a fundamental right. We value very little more highly than our rage, which gives us, in our opinion, the moral high ground. From there we can shoot down at our enemies and inflict heavy fatalities.
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I'll tell you what divorce hasn't taught me. It didn't teach me not to get married again.
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A figure of speech is a shifty thing it can be twisted or it can be straight.
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The glamour of being forbidden must not be underestimated.
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Originality is dangerous. It challenges, questions, overturns assumptions, unsettles moral codes.
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India, the new myth--a collective fiction in which anything was possible, a fable rivalled only by the two other mighty fantasies: money and God.
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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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With death comes honesty.
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The Christian Coalition is still about Christianity, even if it's an idea of Christianity that many Christians might not go along with.
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The idea of the sacred is quite simply one of the most conservative notions in any culture, because it seeks to turn other ideas - uncertainty, progress, change - into crimes.
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Most of what matters in your life takes place in your absence.
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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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History could claw upward as well as down. The powerful could be deafened by the cries of the poor.
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‘Respect for religion’ has become a code phrase meaning ‘fear of religion.’ Religions, like all other ideas, deserve criticism, satire, and, yes, our fearless disrespect.
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I think it's a very important function of art to challenge accepted reality, especially when that reality is created by powerful interest groups.
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Human beings, you see, do absolutely two primary things. We see like and unlike. Like becomes, in literature, simile and metaphor. Unlike becomes uniqueness and difference, from which I believe, the novel is born.
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It is often said by religious people that without its framework, there is no sense of right or wrong. My view is that religion comes after ethics.
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