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I'm a world expert on superhero comics. I think maybe only Michael Chabon knows more than me.

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Salman Rushdie
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: June 19
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I don't know what to say about literary critics. I think it's probably best to say nothing.
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What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.
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I determined to make my peace with Islam, even at the cost of my pride. Those who were surprised and displeased by what I did perhaps failed to see that ... I wanted to make peace between the warring halves of the world, which were also the warring halves of my soul.
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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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Hell is other people's fantasies.
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I write books I'd enjoy reading, I'm the reader standing behind my shoulder.
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In the real world, immeasurable hurt is caused by terrorists based in Pakistan who attack countries like India.
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Now I know what a ghost is. Unfinished business, that's what.
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It just requires so much of you, and most of the time you feel dumb.
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We were language's magpies by nature, stealing whatever sounded bright and shiny.
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Meaning is a shaky edifice we build out of scraps, dogmas, childhood injuries, newspaper articles, chance remarks, old fillms, small victories, people hated, people loved perhaps it is because our sense of what is the case is constructed from such inadequate materials that we defend it so fiercely, even to death.
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Islam is unusual in that it's the only one of the great world religions which was born inside recorded history. That there's an enormous amount of factual historical record about the life of a prophet and about social conditions in Arabia at that time. So it's possible to look at the origin of Islam in a scholarly way.
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When you write, you write out of your best self. Everything else drops away.
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In the movies, the writer is just the servant, the employee.
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The thing that I think was very brave of my younger self was that he decided he would be an idiot. Just persevere. That feels brave to me: deciding that I'm going to damn well be this person that I've set my heart on being.
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If there were Israeli attacks on Iranian nuclear facilities, it makes it certain there would be a reprisal attack against the United States at some point.
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We are the storytelling animal.
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