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India is my kid sister.
Salman Rushdie
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Salman Rushdie
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: June 19
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Bombay
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Joseph Anton
Sir Ahmed Salman Rushdie
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The Koran was revealed at a time of great change in the Arab world, the seventh-century shift from a matriarchal nomadic culture to an urban patriarchal system.
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Before I came to England, my favorite authors were P. G. Wodehouse and Agatha Christie. I used to devour both.
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I think anyone who knows me at all knows that I have been a movie addict all my life. I grew up in a city obsessed by cinema and where there are cinemas on every street corner.
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I write books I'd enjoy reading, I'm the reader standing behind my shoulder.
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We are described into corners, and then we must describe ourselves out of corners.
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The USA approach looks like bullying because it is.
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There is a widespread difficulty in the Muslim world, which has to do with how the people are taught about examining their own history. A whole range of stuff has been placed off limits.
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Free societies are societies in motion, and with motion comes friction.
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The glamour of being forbidden must not be underestimated.
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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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When thought becomes excessively painful, action is the finest remedy.
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I don't think people cry reading 'Midnight's Children,' but a lot of people seem to cry watching the movie.
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What's the use of stories that aren't even true?
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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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A thing that happens to migrants is that they lose many of the traditional things which root identity, which root the self.
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Perhaps because my relationship with my father went through such a long, bumpy time, it's been very important for me to work to try to keep lines of communication open between my sons and myself to try to avoid my father's mistakes. At least if you're making mistakes, make different mistakes.
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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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I have to say that after some initial resistance, I'm now a complete 'Game of Thrones' addict.
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‘Respect for religion’ has become a code phrase meaning ‘fear of religion.’ Religions, like all other ideas, deserve criticism, satire, and, yes, our fearless disrespect.
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