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My children are English, and both of their mothers were English.
Salman Rushdie
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Salman Rushdie
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: June 19
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Bombay
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Fundamentalists of all faiths are the fundamental evil of our time.
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Broad-mindedness is related to tolerance open-mindedness is the sibling of peace.
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I write books I'd enjoy reading, I'm the reader standing behind my shoulder.
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We who have grown up on a diet of honour and shame can still grasp what must seem unthinkable to people living in the aftermath of the death of God and of tragedy: that men will sacrifice their dearest love on the implacable altars of their pride.
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Look at history. It's not the account of a species at peace.
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I'm a novelist. Fortunately I don't have to rule the world.
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American literature has always been immigrant.
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I grew up kissing books and bread.
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You don't fight radical conservatism with not-quite-so radical conservatism.
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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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A man who invents himself needs someone to believe in him... Not only the need to be believed in, but the need to believe in another. You've got it: Love.
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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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For me, what I've always seen in writers and artists is the courage it takes to make an original work of art. I think the real risks in literature are linguistic and intellectual, and I hope we can highlight those, as well as political courage.
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Have you noticed the physical resemblance between Imran Khan and Gaddafi? If you were making a movie of the life of Gaddafi and you wanted a slightly better-looking version of Gaddafi, you might cast Imran Khan.
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It is commonly and, I believe, accurately said of Pakistan that her women are much more impressive than her men.
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Nobody wants to read a 600 page book in which the author is fabulous throughout.
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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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