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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.

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Salman Rushdie
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: June 19
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[My work] is a love song to our mongrel selves.
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The accidents of my life have given me the ability to make stories in which different parts of the world are brought together, sometimes harmoniously, sometimes in conflict, and sometimes both - usually both. The difficulty in these stories is that if you write about everywhere you can end up writing about nowhere.
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A mature society understands that at the heart of democracy is argument.
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Someone asked me if I was afraid to write my memoirs. I told him: 'We have to stop drawing up accounts of fear! We live in a society in which people are allowed to tell their story, and that is what I do.'
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I seem to have fallen for women with missing parents. Goodness knows what it signifies.
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Some people are paralyzed by the consciousness of death, other people live with it.... The fatwa certainly made me think about it a lot more than I ever had. I guess I know I'm going to die, but then, so are you.
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Anyone who has had the experience of going through American security checks knows the purpose of these checks is not to make you safer it's just to annoy you.
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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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Vertigo is the conflict between the fear of falling and the desire to fall.
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Originality is dangerous. It challenges, questions, overturns assumptions, unsettles moral codes.
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Writers have been in terrible situations and have yet managed to produce extraordinary work.
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When thought becomes excessively painful, action is the finest remedy.
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I stand with Charlie Hebdo, as we all must, to defend the art of satire.
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I don't like books that play to the gallery, but I've become more concerned with telling a story as clearly and engagingly as I can.
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Bread and books: food for the body and food for the soul - what could be more worthy of our respect, and even love?
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You can adhere to your faith, but that faith needs to march in line with the rest of the world and needs to find a way of expressing itself in the modern world.
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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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The response of anybody interested in liberty is that we all have a say and the ability to have an argument is exactly what liberty is, even though it may never be resolved. In any authoritarian society the possessor of power dictates, and if you try and step outside he will come after you.
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India is my kid sister.
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