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Salman Rushdie
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: June 19
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Writers have been in terrible situations and have yet managed to produce extraordinary work.
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What happened in Pakistan was that people were told: You're all Muslim, so now you're a country. As we saw in 1971 with the Bangladesh secession, the answer to that was: 'Oh no, we're not.'
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I do not need the idea of God to explain the world I live in.
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How to forgive the world for its beauty, which merely disguises its ugliness for its gentleness, which merely cloaks its cruelty for its illusion of continuity, seamlessly, as the night follows the day, so to speak- whereas in reality life is a series of brutal raptures, falling upon your defenseless hands, like the blows of a woodman's axe?
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If you were standing next to the prophet on the mountain, would you have seen the archangel? And my answer to that was probably not, even though it's supposed to be a really big archangel. He describes it as - the Archangel Gabriel as standing on the horizon and filling the sky. That's a big angel.
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The way you write a screenplay is that you close your eyes and run the movie in your head and then you write it down.
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I've never had very high regard for therapists. I owe my health, my mental survival, to my friends and loved ones.
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She's no flibberti-gibberti mamzell, but a whir-stir-get-lost-sir bundla dynamite!
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A man who catches History's eye is thereafter bound to a mistress from whom he will never escape.
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We must agree on what matters: kissing in public places, bacon sandwiches, disagreement, cutting-edge fashion, literature, generosity, water, a more equitable distribution of the world's resources, movies, music, freedom of thought, beauty, love.
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From the beginning men used God to justify the unjustifiable.
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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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My grandmother was very fierce and gruff. She was quite small, but she was very wide.
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The history of a culture can be determined by its untranslatable words.
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Look at history. It's not the account of a species at peace.
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He had picked up languages the way most sailors pick up diseases languages were his gonorrhoea, his syphilis, his scurvy, his ague, his plague.
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There needs to be a thorough examination, by Muslims everywhere, of why it is that the faith they love breeds so many violent mutant strains.
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If you give in to the threat of violence, if you give in to bullying, what you know is that there will be more bullying. There will not be less bullying. If you appease the bully, you make sure that he will bully you some more. Not less. It doesn't solve the problem. It makes the problem worse.
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Children like being a little scared, but they don't want to be disturbed.
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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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