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In television, the 60-minute series, 'The Wire' and 'Mad Men' and so on, the writer is the primary creative artist.

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Salman Rushdie
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: June 19
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Out-of-step intellectuals like Noam Chomsky and the deceased Edward Said have often been dismissed as crazy extremists, 'anti-American,' and in Mr. Said's case even, absurdly, as apologists for Palestinian 'terrorism.'
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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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I used to say, 'There is a God-shaped hole in me.' For a long time I stressed the absence, the hole. Now I find it is the shape which has become more important.
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American literature has always been immigrant.
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When you write, you write out of your best self. Everything else drops away.
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You start at the stupid end of the book, and if you're lucky you finish at the smart end.
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Live on, survive, for the earth gives forth wonders. It may swallow your heart, but the wonders keep on coming. You stand before them bareheaded, shriven. What is expected of you is attention.
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One of the characteristics of mudslinging is that mud sticks if it's thrown with enough force for long enough.
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YouTube is full of pieces of trash. If you want to look on YouTube and find something that insults you, you can probably find it.
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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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I am clearly vulnerable to these more passionate and volatile unstable relationships. I am trying to not be so vulnerable.
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What's the use of stories that aren't even true?
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Sometimes great, banned works defy the censor's description and impose themselves on the world - 'Ulysses,' 'Lolita,' the 'Arabian Nights.'
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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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Human beings do not perceive things whole we are not gods but wounded creatures, cracked lenses, capably only of fractured perceptions. Partial beings, in all the senses of that phrase.
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It's obvious that I come down on the side of free speech for anybody's work.
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English, no longer an English language, now grows from many roots.
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The writers of the French enlightenment had deliberately used blasphemy as a weapon, refusing to accept the power of the Church to set limiting points on thought.
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Once you put a thought into the world, it can be disagreed with, but it can't be unthought.
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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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