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I don't like books that play to the gallery, but I've become more concerned with telling a story as clearly and engagingly as I can.

Salman Rushdie

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Salman Rushdie
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: June 19
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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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I stand with Charlie Hebdo, as we all must, to defend the art of satire, which has always been a force for liberty and against tyranny, dishonesty and stupidity.
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So India’s problem turns out to be the world’s problem. What happened in India has happened in God’s name. The problem’s name is God.
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A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it or offer your own version in return.
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Now I know what a ghost is. Unfinished business, that's what.
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What can't be cured must be endured.
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But love is what we want, not freedom. Who then is the unluckier man? The beloved, who is given his heart's desire and must for ever after fear its loss, or the free man, with his unlooked-for liberty, naked and alone between the captive armies of the earth?
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I fell victim to the temptation of every autobiographer, to the illusion that since the past exists only in one's memories and the words which strive vainly to encapsulate them, it is possible to create past events simply by saying they occurred.
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Certainly, the Hollywood cinema, there's almost nothing of interest coming out of there.
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Many of us didn't believe in the image of bin Laden as a wandering Old Man of the Mountains, living on plants and insects in an inhospitable cave somewhere on the porous Pakistan-Afghan border.
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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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Religion, a mediaeval form of unreason, when combined with modern weaponry becomes a real threat to our freedoms.
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Between shame and shamelessness lies the axis upon which we turn meteorological conditions at both these poles are of the most extreme, ferocious type. Shamelessness, shame: the roots of violence.
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Some people are paralyzed by the consciousness of death, other people live with it.... The fatwa certainly made me think about it a lot more than I ever had. I guess I know I'm going to die, but then, so are you.
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English, no longer an English language, now grows from many roots.
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One either loves, or waits for love, or banishes love for good. That is the full range of possible choices.
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A thing that happens to migrants is that they lose many of the traditional things which root identity, which root the self.
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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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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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