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I have been a film buff all my life and believe that the finest cinema is fully the equal of the best novels.

Salman Rushdie

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Salman Rushdie
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: June 19
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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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I don't think people cry reading 'Midnight's Children,' but a lot of people seem to cry watching the movie.
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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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I grew up kissing books and bread.
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Stories in families are colossally important. Every family has stories: some funny, some proud, some embarrassing, some shameful. Knowing them is proof of belonging to the family.
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If you're offended, it's your problem.
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What's the use of stories that aren't even true?
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You can adhere to your faith, but that faith needs to march in line with the rest of the world and needs to find a way of expressing itself in the modern world.
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Bin Laden was born filthy rich and died in a rich man's house, which he had painstakingly built to the highest specifications.
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If I were asked for a one-sentence sound bite on religion, I would say I was against it.
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I think anyone who knows me at all knows that I have been a movie addict all my life. I grew up in a city obsessed by cinema and where there are cinemas on every street corner.
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The Republicans were not always insane. They might've had politics I didn't agree with, but they weren't always actually certifiable.
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It is very, very easy not to be offended by a book. You just have to shut it.
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One of the things a writer is for is to say the unsayable, speak the unspeakable and ask difficult questions.
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So when I studied history at Cambridge, I did a special subject in that, exactly that. And then actually that - while I was studying it was where I came across the so-called incident of the satanic verses.
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Religion, a mediaeval form of unreason, when combined with modern weaponry becomes a real threat to our freedoms. This religious totalitarianism has caused a deadly mutation in the heart of Islam and we see the tragic consequences in Paris today.
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You don't that often see writers being sought out when there are matters of great moment to discuss. And I think that's a loss.
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Once you get that instinct for the fictiveness, the fictionality of fiction, it kind of sets you free.
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They lived in a great city, a metropolis of many narratives that converged briefly and then separated for ever, discovering their different dooms in that crowd of stories through which all of us, following our own destinies, had to push and shove to find our way through, or out.
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Unfortunately, the problem of the free speech argument is that you have to defend people you can't stand.
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