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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 was 21 in 1968, so I'm as much a child of the '60s as is possible to be. In those years the subject of religion had really almost disappeared the idea that religion was going to be a major force in the life of our societies, in the West anyway, would have seemed absurd in 1968.
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One minute you've got a lucky star watching over you and the next instant it's done a bunk.
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The sixty-minute drama form has become very rich.
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Hell is other people's fantasies.
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In this world without quiet corners, there can be no easy escapes from history, from hullabaloo, from terrible, unquiet fuss.
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No people whose word for 'yesterday' is the same as their word for 'tomorrow' can be said to have a firm grip on the time.
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When I'm writing a book, sentence by sentence, I'm not thinking theoretically. I'm just trying to work out the story from inside the characters I've got.
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In the movies, the writer is just the servant, the employee.
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You can't assume if you do something contentious that people will be on your side. The moment violence enters the story, the story changes. Then the question is, How do you face up to violence? And then you have to have a no-compromise position. And this is quite simply a lesson we learn in the school playground.
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One of the strange things about violent and authoritarian regimes is they don't like the glare of negative publicity.
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Language upon a silvered tongue affords enchantment enough.
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All names mean something.
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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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Even when things are at their worst, there's a little voice in your head saying, 'Good story!'
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The Republicans were not always insane. They might've had politics I didn't agree with, but they weren't always actually certifiable.
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Very often in free speech cases you find yourself defending material that you personally detest, because of course it's no trick to defend the free speech of people you either agree with or who don't particularly upset you. It's when people really upset you that you discover if you believe in free speech or not.
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Something was badly amiss with the spiritual life of the planet...Too many demons inside people claiming to believe in God.
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In Iran, fundamentalism was fuelled to an extent by the regime of the Shah being supported by the West.
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We are described into corners, and then we must describe ourselves out of corners.
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Once you get that instinct for the fictiveness, the fictionality of fiction, it kind of sets you free.
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