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In this world without quiet corners, there can be no easy escapes from history, from hullabaloo, from terrible, unquiet fuss.
Salman Rushdie
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Salman Rushdie
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: June 19
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Joseph Anton
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Sometimes you find your voice by trying to write like people, and sometimes you find it by trying to write unlike people.
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When you write you in a way write out of what you think of as your best self, the part of you that is lacking in foibles and weaknesses and egotism and vanities and so on. You're just trying to really say something as truthful as you can out of the best that you have in you.
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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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Not all possibilities are open to us. The world is finite our hopes spill over its rim.
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The mistake of the West was to put the Sauds on the throne of Saudi Arabia and give them control of the world's oil fortune, which they then used to propagate Wahhabi Islam.
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Look at history. It's not the account of a species at peace.
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I fell victim to the temptation of every autobiographer, to the illusion that since the past exists only in one's memories and the words which strive vainly to encapsulate them, it is possible to create past events simply by saying they occurred.
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The worst, most insidious effect of censorship is that, in the end, it can deaden the imagination of the people. Where there is no debate, it is hard to go on remembering, every day, that there is a suppressed side to every argument.
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What had been (at the beginning) no bigger than a full stop had expanded into a comma, a word, a sentence, a paragraph, a chapter now it was bursting into more complex developments, becoming, one might say, a book - perhaps an encylopaedia - even a whole language.
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Between shame and shamelessness lies the axis upon which we turn meteorological conditions at both these poles are of the most extreme, ferocious type. Shamelessness, shame: the roots of violence.
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Hyperrealism can create an atmosphere of surrealism because nobody sees the world in such detail.
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If you're offended, it's your problem.
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I didn't become a writer to write about me.
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One minute you've got a lucky star watching over you and the next instant it's done a bunk.
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