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In the movies, the writer is just the servant, the employee.

Salman Rushdie

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Salman Rushdie
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: June 19
Actor
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Bombay
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You never know the answers to the questions of life until you are asked.
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If you actually want to change your world, there is a better way of doing it than blowing yourself up.
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When you know what you're against you have taken the first step to discovering what you're for.
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Your blasphemy, Salman, can't be forgiven. To set your words against the Words of God.
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I didn't become a writer to write about me.
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I needed my stuff around me, and in that little cocoon I felt good, and I could work.
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Literature is where I go to explore the highest and lowest places in human society and in the human spirit, where I hope to find not absolute truth but the truth of the tale, of the imagination and of the heart.
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The answer to religion is not no religion, but another way of thinking of it. Another way of being in it.
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