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Nobody wants to read a 600 page book in which the author is fabulous throughout.
Salman Rushdie
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Salman Rushdie
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: June 19
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The west was involved in toppling the Mossadegh government. That ultimately led to the Iranian revolution.
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I always thought the front line was the bookstores. And bookstores around America, around the world did astonishingly well. They held the line. They didn't chicken out. You know, they defended the book. They kept it in the front of the store.
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Everybody loves 'The Wire,' and I think it's okay, but in the end it's just a police series.
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Realism can break a writer's heart.
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I needed my stuff around me, and in that little cocoon I felt good, and I could work.
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A novel, I think, is partly about the contemporary and partly about the eternal, and it's the balance of that that's difficult to achieve.
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Can one drown in one's element... If fish can drown in water, can human beings suffocate in air?
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Well, we're still in the middle of it. And it doesn't show any sign of going away. And these attacks that were - that seemed so odd at the time, with Satanic Verses, because we didn't have any context for this. You know, where did that come from? It seemed to come out of nowhere.
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Originality is dangerous. It challenges, questions, overturns assumptions, unsettles moral codes.
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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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What you were is forever who you are.
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If a birth is the fall-out from the explosion caused by the union of two unstable elements, then perhaps a half-life is all we can expect.
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With death comes honesty.
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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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English, no longer an English language, now grows from many roots.
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Whores and writers, Mahound. We are the people you can't forgive.
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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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Ignorantly is how we all fall in love for it is a kind of fall. Closing our eyes, we leap from that cliff in hope of a soft landing. Nor is it always soft but still, without that leap nobody comes to life.
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