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Salman Rushdie
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: June 19
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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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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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For every snake, there is a ladder for every ladder,a snake
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It's a terrible thing that your life turns into a good story.
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Killing people because you don't like their ideas - it's a bad thing.
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Hyperrealism can create an atmosphere of surrealism because nobody sees the world in such detail.
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I have been a film buff all my life and believe that the finest cinema is fully the equal of the best novels.
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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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But love is what we want, not freedom. Who then is the unluckier man? The beloved, who is given his heart's desire and must for ever after fear its loss, or the free man, with his unlooked-for liberty, naked and alone between the captive armies of the earth?
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I do not need the idea of God to explain the world I live in.
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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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In the cookie of life, friends are the chocolate chips.
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I want more than what I want. (Vina Apsara)
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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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My love for Dan Brown knows no bounds. It literally has no mass.
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A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it or offer your own version in return.
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The PEN/Barbara Goldsmith Freedom to Write Award is a way of spotlighting individual cases. If you look at the history of the award, the freedom rate is very high: a very high percentage of people who receive those awards are freed in the next six months to a year. The only weapon there is attention, but interestingly it works.
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The only privilege literature deserves - and this privilege it requires in order to exist - is the privilege of being in the arena of discourse, the place where the struggle of our languages can be acted out.
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When you throw everything up in the air anything becomes possible.
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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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