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Nobody wants to read a 600 page book in which the author is fabulous throughout.

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Salman Rushdie
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: June 19
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I for one don't need a supreme sacred arbiter in order to be a moral being.
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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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The worst, most insidious effect of censorship is that, in the end, it can deaden the imagination of the people. Where there is no debate, it is hard to go on remembering, every day, that there is a suppressed side to every argument.
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One either loves, or waits for love, or banishes love for good. That is the full range of possible choices.
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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.
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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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Even the Islam stuff I thought was pretty respectful about Islam in a funny way. I mean, yes, from a secular point of view, but it talks about the birth of this religion, and I thought it was pretty admiring of the person at the center of it, the prophet of Islam.
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If by some bizarre chance there turns out to be a god [...], I'm willing to bet he's an atheist too.
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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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Peace, perfect peace, in this dark world of sin? The Blood of Jesus whispers peace within.
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Doubt, it seems to me, is the central condition of a human being in the twentieth century.
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I think, in a written novel, the way in which you play with the readers' emotion or the way in which you engage the readers' emotions can be very indirect. You could come at it through irony or comedy, etcetera, and you could capture people's sympathies and feelings kind of by stealth if you like.
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What's the use of stories that aren't even true?
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I believe in the art of literature, I believe in freedom of the imagination, I believe in the kind of liberties that we enjoy in these lucky countries of the world.
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Sometimes when you finish a book, you don't know quite what you've got.
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I grew up kissing books and bread.
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What's real and what's true aren't necessarily the same.
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You want all your books to stick around after you've gone.
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Sometimes great, banned works defy the censor's description and impose themselves on the world - 'Ulysses,' 'Lolita,' the 'Arabian Nights.'
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Writers and politicians are natural rivals. Both groups try to make the world in their own images they fight for the same territory.
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