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It may be that the books that were best liked in your lifetime are not the ones that are best liked 100 years later.

Salman Rushdie

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Salman Rushdie
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: June 19
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Madame Bovary and a flying carpet, they are both untrue in the same way. Somebody made them up.
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Sometimes writing a novel is not unlike having a baby. You'd have to ask a female novelist to compare the pain.
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There's a lot of conflict and darkness inside everybody's family. We all pretend to outsiders that it's not so but behind locked doors there are usually high emotions running.
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Pakistan is alarmed by the rising Indian influence in Afghanistan, and fears that an Afghanistan cleansed of the Taliban would be an Indian client state, thus sandwiching Pakistan between two hostile countries. The paranoia of Pakistan about India's supposed dark machinations should never be underestimated.
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It just requires so much of you, and most of the time you feel dumb.
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How to forgive the world for its beauty, which merely disguises its ugliness for its gentleness, which merely cloaks its cruelty for its illusion of continuity, seamlessly, as the night follows the day, so to speak- whereas in reality life is a series of brutal raptures, falling upon your defenseless hands, like the blows of a woodman's axe?
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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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If you were standing next to the prophet on the mountain, would you have seen the archangel? And my answer to that was probably not, even though it's supposed to be a really big archangel. He describes it as - the Archangel Gabriel as standing on the horizon and filling the sky. That's a big angel.
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A man is sane only to the extent that he subscribes to a previously-agreed construction of reality.
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I do have a lot of time for people in my life, and friendship is a very important subject for me. I think I'm unusual among the writers I know in that respect.
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We were language's magpies by nature, stealing whatever sounded bright and shiny.
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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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The novel does not seek to establish a privileged language but it insists upon the freedom to portray and analyze the struggle between the different contestants for such privileges.
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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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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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From the beginning men used God to justify the unjustifiable.
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I am gagged and imprisoned. I can't even speak. I want to kick a football in a park with my son. Ordinary, banal life: my impossible dream.
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History could claw upward as well as down. The powerful could be deafened by the cries of the poor.
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For a fellow who's not to much to look at, you have the instincts of a champion.
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