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It seems that the right of freedom of speech that was enshrined in numerous constitutions is now under attack by religious institutions.
Salman Rushdie
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Salman Rushdie
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: June 19
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The real risks for any artist are taken in pushing the work to the limits of what is possible, in the attempt to increase the sum of what it is possible to think. Books become good when they go to this edge and risk falling over it -when they endanger the artist by reason of what he has, or has not, artistically dared.
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Not even the visionary or mystical experience ever lasts very long. It is for art to capture that experience, to offer it to, in the case of literature, its readers to be, for a secular, materialist culture, some sort of replacement for what the love of god offers in the world of faith.
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What's the use of stories that aren't even true?
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I think people direct good films when they feel personal to them, not because it's a famous book or something. It has to something move over that and somehow become personal to the director.
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If my child had prejudice in his head, I'd be ashamed. I would see it as my failure as a parent.
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YouTube is full of pieces of trash. If you want to look on YouTube and find something that insults you, you can probably find it.
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When you write, you write out of your best self. Everything else drops away.
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I stand with Charlie Hebdo, as we all must, to defend the art of satire, which has always been a force for liberty and against tyranny, dishonesty and stupidity.
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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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She saw him fracture into rainbow colors through the prism of her love.
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I'm a novelist. Fortunately I don't have to rule the world.
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Rock n' roll was a kid when I was a kid.
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I want to write novels. I want to write stories. I want to do the stuff that I became a writer to do.
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As a writer, one of the things we all learned from the movies was a kind of compression that didn't exist before people were used to watching films. For instance, if you wanted to write a flashback in a novel, you once had to really contextualize it a lot, to set it up. Now, readers know exactly what you're doing. Close-ups, too.
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I grew up falling in love with kind of story, amazing, wonder tale of the East, which if you're a child growing up in India is all around you.And I think one of the gifts it gave me as a writer was this early knowledge that stories are not true.
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Matthew Wiener on Mad Men writes the entire series before they start shooting, and if you have that, then what you can do with character and story is not at all unlike what you can do in a novel.
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The only privilege literature deserves - and this privilege it requires in order to exist - is the privilege of being in the arena of discourse, the place where the struggle of our languages can be acted out.
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One of the characteristics of mudslinging is that mud sticks if it's thrown with enough force for long enough.
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Our lives are not what we deserve they are, let us agree, in many ways deficient.
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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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