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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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Salman Rushdie
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: June 19
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There is no magic on earth strong enough to wipe out the legacies of one's parents.
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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 always thought the front line was the bookstores. And bookstores around America, around the world did astonishingly well. They held the line. They didn't chicken out. You know, they defended the book. They kept it in the front of the store.
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When you write, you write out of your best self. Everything else drops away.
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Throughout human history, the apostles of purity, those who have claimed to possess a total explanation, have wrought havoc among mere mixed-up human beings.
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For a fellow who's not to much to look at, you have the instincts of a champion.
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I know who I am, I know what I'm for, and I know what I'm willing to fight for.
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Hell is other people's fantasies.
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And so it is they who, between them, give me all the reasons for believing in none.
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The novel does not seek to establish a privileged language but it insists upon the freedom to portray and analyze the struggle between the different contestants for such privileges.
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We are the only animals that tell stories to understand the world we live in.
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Friendships are the family we make - not the one we inherit. I've always been someone to whom friendship, elective affinities, is as important as family.
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I am certainly not a good Muslim. But I am able now to say that I am Muslim in fact it is a source of happiness to say that I am now inside, and a part of the community whose values have always been closest to my heart.
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I'm a novelist. Fortunately I don't have to rule the world.
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A man is sane only to the extent that he subscribes to a previously-agreed construction of reality.
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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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When I'm writing a book, sentence by sentence, I'm not thinking theoretically. I'm just trying to work out the story from inside the characters I've got.
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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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